google desktop out for linux?

[Sven Richter]

On Sunday 01 July 2007 03:21:10 Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> 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.
>
Thats a good thing, to my pity, our university only has the
spam mail accounts, nothing with privacy or something like
SSL.

> 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.
>
A very good point, but as you stated, at least no one is safe
if he doesnt encrypt his email and the smtp server supports 
it.

> But there is no privacy nirvana to be bought. You are always exposed
> on the net (afaik, please prove me wrong).
>
I cant, i'd really like to, but its not possible.
I'll do my best to safe my privacy as much as i can.
ASAP i will rent a root server with some friends and
setup kolab on it, to store everything there.
Not because of privacy, just for having our
personal data everywhere availabe (calendar, ...)
Good that kolab supports ssl by default.

But at least, i think its better if i avoid obvious
data collection then supporting it, if i am able to do so.


Greetings
Sven Richter