Bob La Quey wrote:
What is AIS?
A datacenter. www.americanis.net
During the last decade I can only think of one or two times when I had anything in email that I would object to being public.
Ah yes, the old "I'm not doing anything wrong so why should I worry about privacy?" argument.
I believe very much in privacy. I just don't use or feel any particular need for anything other the rare email message to be private. Others situations are no doubt different.
If the only emails sent with measures taken for privacy are ones that need to be secret they will surely get read and you will have troubles. Imagine if everyone in the world is sending their correspondence around on postcards that anyone can read and you show up at the post office with a sealed envelope. You are going straight onto the no-fly list.
This is a non-starter. Your business is probably dependent upon a huge web of other businesses for its success. The question is not _if_ one will depend on other businesses but _what_ will one choose to farm out.
But we are not singly dependent on any one of them. Except perhaps Microsoft. And you know I'm fighting that one wherever possible. If our ISP takes a dump we can get another one. If our janitor service quits we can get another one. If all of our information is stored at Google and something happens such that we no longer have access we are just SOL.
Example money. Does your business depend on money? Do you use a bank? Why do you trust a bank to take care of your money?
Banks are historically trustworthy in the US. Software companies are historically untrustworthy. But who says I keep all of my money in one bank anyway? Diversification is not a bad idea in that sense.
I could rant on but I think you get the point. A business needs to determine what it has to add that has value and focus on that.
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