Yeh, I think security is always a trade off between convenience and security. Most cloud based services have privacy statements which you can read over before you sign up. Of course, you can always choose not to believe these statements and guarantees. Also don't forget that anything going out over the internet can conceivably get snooped, such as email. IMAP was also the cloud before there was a cloud.
When it comes to Google, it's interesting though. Whereas other companies and individuals may have to work hard and use up a lot of their time to snoop, remember that Google made their name exactly by efficiently searching through data. That doesn't mean I personally don't trust Google though, I'm just saying! IMHO, I think security is a serious concern, but I also am not sure much of the general public is overly concerned about security, especially when it means inconvenience. Using the same password on all of your accounts is probably much less secure than the encryption Google uses to store your Google Drive data. Security is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. On 29/06/12 11:21, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > It's been my belief that everyone everywhere snoops. Whether it's > Dropbox, Google, or Microsoft or Apple. If you want 100% no snooping, > disconnect from your wi-fi and your ethernet port, and don't use data at > all. *smile*. C Sarcasm at it's best, but seriously. When it comes to > anything cloud based, what sort of guarantee do you have that your stuff > isn't snooped on. So, if I will put sensitive stuff on anything > cloud-based, if I care about it enough, I use a password protected file. > Otherwise, I just don't care and if people have that kind of time on > their hands to snoop through my stuff, more power to them. > > -- > Raul A. Gallegos > Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it is more likely to be > female. - Desmond Morris > Home Page: http://raulgallegos.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/rau47 > Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 > > > On 6/28/2012 4:07 PM, Joe wrote: >> Yeah, enjoy Google snooping through your stuff at will. For balance >> though, >> I hope the GDrive app is as accessible as Dropbox is.--Joe >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On >> Behalf >> Of Matthew Campbell >> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 3:18 PM >> To: viphone@googlegroups.com >> Subject: GoogleDrive IOS app hits the App Store >> >> Hi all. >> The GoogleDrive IOS app has finally hit the app store! >> The best part of it is that the app seems to be fully accessible with VO. >> Now I don't regret ditching DropBox one bit. I'm not quite ready to >> say yay >> to iCloud's documents in the cloud either. It's nice to have an iDisk >> alternative now that MobileMe is dead. >> Enjoy, >> Matthew Campbell. >> >> > -- Christopher (CJ) chaltain at Gmail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
