Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:45:33 -0700 Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design Cc: nanog@nanog.org
The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud.
Correct. Either it's 'local', or it's "somewhere else" -- by definition. :)
Of all the internet entities out there, Google has had the best track record of protecting your data.
As far as we know, that is. Remember the old saying about 'undiscovered bugs'. <wry grin>
You can even download it all and erase yourself if you want out.
Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'. Specific example -- if you request a USENET posting to be removed, all they do is make it 'invisible' to the world. It is _not_ removed from the databases, or from inernal access/use.