On Feb 4, 3:51 pm, Chance Reecher <[email protected]> wrote: > Then there's the question of whether you want to trust a company with > your music and photos - a company that could potentially go defunct, > and take your data with them.
that's just part of the issue. not to sound TOO paranoid/conspiracy nut-like, your data is much more vulnerable to peeping tom's, big brother and otherwise, and before you throw encryption back at me, i'm here to tell you that is a farce, and nothing more than a feel-good pacifier, like a home security system. there are degrees of difficulty to crack encryption, but NONE are impossible, it just depends on what a would-be hacker is willing to invest. and any encryption based on factoring large primes is a TOTAL illusion. the gov't pushed that form of encryption precisely because they secretly had an algorithm to crack any factoring problem quickly, and they were very upset when a mathematician published results along those same lines. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
