A Paranoid Guide to Google Data Privacy  You can partially
switch to Yahoo and take other steps to shield your data from
Google, but what happens if Google itself is compromised? One
particularly privacy-conscious Computerworld contributor
suggests five potential scenarios and the "Defcon 1" and "Defcon
2" solutions.  Photo by HeyRocker.  Logan Kugler explores the
two sides of the risk coin when using Google services: the data
Google is pulling from you, and the sensitive things hackers
could pull out of you or Google itself through password cracking
or authorization fake-outs. Each risk is then broken into two
steps: "Defcon 2" for smart but probably sensible fixes, and
"Defcon 1" for, well, people who are securing the world's
nuclear armament information (or at least feel like they are).
If you're concerned about phishing attacks, keylogging, or other
work-around password hacks, for example, "sandboxing" with a
virtual machine might be the Defcon 1 solution:  "Sandbox" your
browser. Use virtualization sof