If you pay for a solution you wouldn’t have your information farmed but if you use a free service than yeah its gonna happen. But if you think about it from a business perspective we get a good deal. Give me 7.3 gigs of email space with gmail for free and if they want to analyze that and serve me ads that I will never click that’s fine with me as long as they don't start controlling my content or changing it or the ultimate betrayal sharing it in its complete form.
Thanks, ------------------------------------------ Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) Sr. Security Researcher Websense Security Labs http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com ------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:58 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Google OS I prefer to host my own stuff that way nobody is farming it for information, demographics, etc... I have things called backups and raid! On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 12:54:53PM -0400, Brian Weeden wrote: > I'm also a huge fan of cloud (done properly). I live in my gmail, gdocs, > and remember the milk accounts and rely on Live Mesh for syncing between my > home PC and laptop when traveling. > > The key that makes all the google stuff work for me is Google Gears. It > does a pretty fantastic job of syncing and allowing offline access to my > gmail. > > --------------------------- > Brian Weeden > Technical Advisor > Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org> > +1 (514) 466-2756 Canada > +1 (202) 683-8534 US > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Mesdaq, Ali <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Gotta disagree with both you guys on that one. Cloud computing definitely > > has major advantages over local for various things. Not all things but for > > example storage. I rather have a google doc hosted by google that will never > > get lost to a harddrive crash than a locally stored doc. I can also see big > > promise in things like http://www.onlive.com/ for gaming. Cloud can't > > replace everything but it can replace a few things really well. I personally > > wouldn?t mind having a lightweight computer that boots off a flash image in > > 2 seconds and connects to the web for accessing my files and basic > > functionality. Something I never have to worry about for maintenance. That > > would be the ultimate web surfing platform. Give one of those computers to > > your family and never have to worry about fixing it ever! > > > > Thanks, > > ------------------------------------------ > > Ali Mesdaq (CISSP, GIAC-GREM) > > Sr. Security Researcher > > Websense Security Labs > > http://www.WebsenseSecurityLabs.com > > ------------------------------------------ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto: > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:07 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Google OS > > > > At 09:55 AM 08/07/2009, Stan Zaske wrote: > > >Cloud computing is bogus. The day when everyone's apps and data are > > >on machines that aren't local is the day the Internet becomes third > > >world. My broadband connection failed again yesterday for a couple > > >hours during the Michael Jackson memorial blitz. How can so many in > > >the industry be pushing this nonsense is beyond me. However, > > >competing against Microsoft is a good idea as it may bring down > > >their ridiculous prices. Anybody pee od'd that Vista owners don't > > >get a free upgrade to 7? > > > > I'm not a big fan of cloud computing either (but interestingly > > enough, am working on a cloud-based project, so go figure.) I don't > > see net connections going down very often, but when they do, it could > > be a big hit to a business. Seems like a single point of failure > > issue to me, but it is taking off. > > > > T > > > > > > > > > > Protected by Websense Hosted Email Security -- www.websense.com > > -- Bryan G. Seitz
