who trusts google apps?

[raffi at flossyourmind.com (Raffi Jamgotchian)]

Security Pukes are no different than other business folks. Convenience  
usually wins.


On Mar 11, 2009, at 5:58 PM, Robin Wood wrote:

> 2009/3/11 Jonathan Moore <supermegatron at gmail.com>:
> > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I like the idea of a centralised, on the net, in the cloud, blah  
> > > blah
> > > blah, service for all my stuff but at the same time I worry about
> > > giving all my private information to google because I don't know  
> > > what
> > > they are going to do with it and also it has to be a very large and
> > > tempting target for bad hackers.
> >
> > I use Google for my personal email.  I also use Google Apps in my
> > orginization.  I justify it by reminding myself, it's email.  Unless
> > both sides use TLS (or something similar) it's going over the net's  
> > in
> > clear at some point.  More on that, if I don't use some type of
> > encryption in the message itself, it's nothing more than a postcard
> > thrown in the wind.
> >
> > My solution, don't use email for _private_ communications.  It's not
> > perfect, but it helps me sleep at night.
>
> The G1 automatically syncs your google address book and its
> phone/contact list so google automatically get access to all your
> phone numbers. The email I send through gmail tends to only be mailing
> list stuff and stuff that I'm not too worried about getting out. I
> have my own mail server for business stuff.
>
> As for the calendar, I really like the idea of being able to access it
> from anywhere and the fact that it is integrated and just works makes
> it very tempting to use. On the other hand I agree that I don't really
> want any private info out there that doesn't need to be.
>
> I think I'm going to get one anyway and see how it goes. I think
> convenience may win but I'll do some encoding so that what is going
> out to the world it isn't too personal.
>
> Robin
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