The challenge today is we live more and more in a "cloud"-based world, but real discussions about privacy rights just are not happening, and the law is 20 years out of date.
I started looking at encryption tools to take parts of my DB setup and encrypt it -- and it completely eliminates the "ease of use" that was provided by the very notion of dropbox.
And when I think about the grip that Google has on me -- the power it has from 8 years of housing ALL of my meaningful emails, several GB worth, and the difficulties of abandoning ship (just to think of all the sites I am registered with using gmail is mind boggling, including this site itself!) are over-whelming. And even if I were to abandon ship, what is my alternative? Host my own email on my Virtual Server through Jumpline.com? (I could, but not really appealing) My iCloud account? Eh... i might be a fan of Apple products today, but I don't know that I want them having my ENTIRE life any more than Google did. In the end, maybe its ok to keep a gmail, have a work account, and do calendering/tasks/photos/music through iCloud.
I started looking at encryption tools to take parts of my DB setup and encrypt it -- and it completely eliminates the "ease of use" that was provided by the very notion of dropbox.
And when I think about the grip that Google has on me -- the power it has from 8 years of housing ALL of my meaningful emails, several GB worth, and the difficulties of abandoning ship (just to think of all the sites I am registered with using gmail is mind boggling, including this site itself!) are over-whelming. And even if I were to abandon ship, what is my alternative? Host my own email on my Virtual Server through Jumpline.com? (I could, but not really appealing) My iCloud account? Eh... i might be a fan of Apple products today, but I don't know that I want them having my ENTIRE life any more than Google did. In the end, maybe its ok to keep a gmail, have a work account, and do calendering/tasks/photos/music through iCloud.
