google desktop out for linux?

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Sven,

On 6/30/07, Sven Richter <sveri-list at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hm, ok, thats a point, and this is how google works, offering
> something others dont offer, for nothing else than your privacy.
> If you want to pay with it, so do it.
> I myself got my own domain, this is the price i pay monthly.

And where are your emails stored, and your domain hosted? In your own
machine, that no one else has access to, or in a remote server? What's
the difference between your mail being stored in an ISP, google or a
rental server (in respect to your privacy)?

I'm not crying wolf here, but I though a bit about this before
creating my gmail account (considering the ads stuff, the indexing my
data, and all other evil possibilities that came through my mind),
weighted it, and concluded the cost of total privacy exceeds my
budget. Nevertheless, I have access to email accounts in my university
which I can trust more or less, knowing personally the sysadmins, and
there's always cryptography.

You can "trust" one particular company better than another, or you can
trust no-one. That never changes the fact that your emails fly plain
text over the net (well, not in google's case, if the other end
supports SSL), just asking to be sniffed by malicious people. There
are too much variables, and the email is needed. One has (as you seem
to have done) to weight one's needs and the known hazards to choose
the best possible solution.

But there is no privacy nirvana to be bought. You are always exposed
on the net (afaik, please prove me wrong).

regards
FF