It's easy to say that there should be some protocol that should be followed to prevent security lapses (and I bet there is at Google), however, even Googlers ar

It's easy to say that there should be some protocol that should be followed to prevent security lapses (and I bet there is at Google), however, even Googlers are only human, and it's very likely that these things are going to happen when building large interconnected systems. On a related note.. When will the time come when we stop caring about making email addresses public? For me, my gmail account very rarely gets any spam, and I'm not careful with it at all.