who trusts google apps?

[gbugbear at gmail.com (Tim Mugherini)]

I agree with Mike

I use em but never store anything of importance that I wouldn't want
to be on the web

In short I use em like any other Web 2.0 app

On 3/11/09, Mike Patterson <mike.patterson at unb.ca> wrote:
> Robin Wood wrote on 3/11/09 3:20 PM:
> > 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 wouldn't use it at all for anything containing information that even
> remotely resembles private.
>
> I solve my "cloud" issues by keeping Things in a mixture of subversion
> and CVS repos on a server I control.  I check docs out where I need to
> work on them, and robert becomes your auntie.
>
> Not so nice for phones, but... it's a convenience/security tradeoff, and
> one I'm not willing to pay.
>
> Mike
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