a reminder about Privacy ...
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 09:59:23 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Having an interest in such things ... I was delighted to see this book about Microfossils available as a free download: **LINK** https://www.academia.edu/10216396/MICROFOSSIL-BRAISER However ... I was surprised [nay, shocked] when I clicked the Download with Google button This invites you to sign-in with your gmail address ... and then [a couple of layers down] warns that: ________________________ This app wants permission to:
________________________ Which seems rather a big price to pay MichaelG. |
Kiwi Bloke | 02/04/2020 10:11:45 |
912 forum posts 3 photos | Absolutely unacceptable! Gurgle = spawn of Satan! If one of your contacts were to experience something unpleasant as a result of contact details being released, who is legally responsible for the privacy breach - you or Gurgle? A 'temporary' email account, with no contacts, etc. is useful... If you look at the 'permissions' required by most Android (another of Gurgle's data-mining methods) apps, you really can't download any without a degree of fear. Edited By Kiwi Bloke on 02/04/2020 10:14:34 |
Circlip | 02/04/2020 10:29:10 |
1723 forum posts | A fool and his web contacts are easily parted.
Regards Ian. |
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 10:38:08 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | In case it’s not obvious from my original post ... I did NOT ‘Download with Google’ This thread is simply a warning to others MichaelG. |
Circlip | 02/04/2020 10:46:02 |
1723 forum posts | So is mine.
Regards Ian. |
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 10:48:09 |
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Bazyle | 02/04/2020 12:53:42 |
![]() 6956 forum posts 229 photos | Surely this isn't google to blame here - they already have all that info in your contacts. It is the different provider of the app who want to mine the info who are targeting the google info because they know it is where valuable info is. |
Frances IoM | 02/04/2020 12:58:50 |
1395 forum posts 30 photos | it's the way others compromise themselves in giving details about their friends - Google is just the worst of many such scummy companies. |
Mike Poole | 02/04/2020 13:28:00 |
![]() 3676 forum posts 82 photos | How about generating a gmail address as a one time throwaway for this sort of request? I have long thought that if emails were charged at 1p the cost for a normal user would be minimal but the use for indiscriminate spam shots would be crippling. It’s worth having an email for shops and sites that demand one to enter and a private one for serious use that should stay spam free ish Mike Edited By Mike Poole on 02/04/2020 13:37:45 |
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 14:59:09 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by Bazyle on 02/04/2020 12:53:42:
Surely this isn't google to blame here - they already have all that info in your contacts. It is the different provider of the app who want to mine the info who are targeting the google info because they know it is where valuable info is. . Agreed ... As I wrote originally, Google warned me that the third party wanted to access my Contacts. On the other hand : Google must be in some way complicit. MichaelG. |
Jon Lawes | 02/04/2020 15:30:13 |
![]() 1078 forum posts | I joined academia.edu to read some papers a friend had written on the cold war (bunkers and suchlike). I wish I hadn't, they bombard me with spam. Unsubscribing has had no effect so they are consigned to the blocked filter now. |
Andrew Evans | 02/04/2020 15:31:05 |
366 forum posts 8 photos | what is your interest in microfossils Michael? |
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 15:45:14 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by Andrew Evans on 02/04/2020 15:31:05:
what is your interest in microfossils Michael? . Just general fascination ... and that happens to be considered the most ‘accessible’ text on the subject. My main interest these days is probably microscopes and microscopy. MichaelG. |
Andrew Evans | 02/04/2020 16:03:41 |
366 forum posts 8 photos | Certainly a fascinating subject, have you been able to observe microfossils at home? I have spent a long time preparing microfossil slides and taking photographs - many years ago now. It even landed me in hospital at one point |
Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 20:13:09 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Not yet, I’m afraid, Andrew ... Hence my interest in the book. Could you perhaps share a few of your photos ? MichaelG. |
John Baron | 02/04/2020 20:42:31 |
![]() 520 forum posts 194 photos | Hi Guys, The download is also a dangerous PDF file. I feel sorry for Wins users.
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Michael Gilligan | 02/04/2020 21:07:08 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by John Baron on 02/04/2020 20:42:31:
Hi Guys, The download is also a dangerous PDF file. I feel sorry for Wins users.
. Thanks for that ^^^ It all makes one wonder how they managed to get the address academia.edu ... A fink is still a fink by any other name, I guess. MichaelG. |
Andrew Evans | 02/04/2020 22:13:58 |
366 forum posts 8 photos | There you go Michael **LINK** These are taken 25 years ago - I have digital copies of these but on old zip disks I can no longer read. Apologies for the photo quality, I used my mobile phone to photograph existing printed photographs. All these are organic microfossils. These are dinoflagellates, foraminifera linings, scolecodont and plant spores from the Cretaceous chalks in Ireland and from oil exploration cores in the seas around Ireland. Plus an acritarch from the Silurian in Shropshire. The scale is shown by the black line which is 10 microns. All these rocks formed in the sea, the plant spores would have been washed in via rivers from land. The black looking one is actually a plant spore from the Carboniferous of Ireland - the reason I added it is because that is what happens to organic matter when it is under high pressure and temperature when the rock is buried under many kilometers for millions of years. Certain pressures turn the organic matter to crude oil, even more pressure it becomes gas and even more any hydrocarbons are destroyed. Hence the colour of organic matter in rocks is important and widely used in oil exploration - if its not dark enough there is no chance of oil, so no point in looking, if its black then its the same thing. The microfossils are also used to help date and correlate rocks and are often the only thing you can distinguish in cored rock from an oil exploration well and often exist in vast numbers in the right rock types. So microfossils have a very practical use! |
Enough! | 02/04/2020 22:40:48 |
1719 forum posts 1 photos | Posted by John Baron on 02/04/2020 20:42:31:
The download is also a dangerous PDF file. I feel sorry for Wins users.
What's your basis for that, John? I downloaded it and scanned it here with AVG and Bitdefender .... negative. I then had it scanned with multiple engines at VirusTotal .... negative. |
Michael Gilligan | 03/04/2020 08:11:45 |
![]() 23121 forum posts 1360 photos | Posted by Andrew Evans on 02/04/2020 22:13:58:
There you go Michael **LINK** These are taken 25 years ago - I have digital copies of these but on old zip disks I can no longer read. Apologies for the photo quality, I used my mobile phone to photograph existing printed photographs. All these are organic microfossils. These are dinoflagellates, foraminifera linings, scolecodont and plant spores from the Cretaceous chalks in Ireland and from oil exploration cores in the seas around Ireland. Plus an acritarch from the Silurian in Shropshire. […] . Many thanks, Andrew ... I was immediately intrigued by the acritarch : not only for its appearance, but because the word is new to me. A few moments searching found me this : **LINK** https://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/acritarch.html ... Which should make interesting background reading [ The opening paragraph gives a sense of adventure already ] MichaelG. . Edit: The content of that UCL site is extensive, and nicely arranged ... the inquisitive might want to start here https://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/index.html
Edited By Michael Gilligan on 03/04/2020 08:29:08 |
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