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Google has responded to CERT-In advisory regarding vulnerabilities in Google applications by saying its systems are working fine and all vulnerabilities that CERT-In reported have been fixed before 27th Sept, the day CERT-In issued advisory.

I had heard of CERT-In before but I really didn’t know it is working so active. After glancing on its website, I realized how wrong I was. Please go and have a look if you haven’t seen that till now.Back to vulnerabilities in Google applications, this raises one serious question how safe we are and our sensitive data in this virtual world that too when we are too much dependent on Google and its applications.

Suppose, if someone hacks your Google account, imagine what could happen. Hacking Google account is like hacking my almost web presence. Take search, email, or blogging, whatever I do on the web most of times I am always dependent on one or other Google applications.
I use firefox as my default browser in spite of its several cons and its performance issues. Firefox is second most high memory consuming application on my system, first being eclipse, and it will always be a big headache in low performance pc. Still firefox cannot display many WebPages properly. Either you will get message ‘browser cannot be supported’ or ‘use IE 5.5 or later’. Have a look on this. I wonder who is responsible for such problems… firefox or website itself? And why don’t they take steps to resolve such things instead of creating inconvenience to users.

Regarding gmail, this is the only personal mail I am using now and hacking my gmail account might lead to chaos for me. It would be a single point of failure.
Long time back, when google introduced text ads inside its email, which displays ads based on your email content, there was a lot of oppose to this initiative. People were started complaining that google is unnecessarily looking into their private data. However after getting assurance from google that it is done automatically by machines without human intervention, people started trusting and gradually the issue was cleared. Although we trust google for maintaining privacy of our data, somewhere in the corner of our heart sometimes I feel am I trusting google too much or is there any other way?