No more OOo in UNR 10.04

Amedee Van Gasse (ub) amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be
Mon Feb 8 13:24:55 UTC 2010


On Mon, February 8, 2010 14:24, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:11:25 +0100
> Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I know it will not happen but people need to wake up. Companies have
>> very bad records of keeping our private data private. They will give
>> our data out at the drop of a hat to most government agencies like the
>> CIA. They loose data. They get hacked, even Google has been. And they
>> just love to sell and trade data by writing very loose user contracts
>> that let them (naturally most users don't even read them).
>
> Amen, brother, amen.  My own data will not reside in the cloud except
> for some pretty (and pretty innocuous) pictures to share with family
> and friends.

I understand your position, but I approach it from the opposite side.
A lot of my data resides in the cloud, but *I* control what goes online
and what not. That way *I* am in control over what a Google search can
find on me, not what others write about me.





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