5 Jun
2012
5 Jun
'12
7:26 p.m.
> Interesting, but it requires:
> b) That you store all your images on their web site.
> Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but I do not like
the current trend
> towards putting my own data on third-party remote sites.
*applause*
THANK GOD...someone else who Gets It!
You're not alone, you two...though it sure can feel like it sometimes,
I know.
Especially when the third-party remote site is in a place with
substantially weaker privacy protection than is provided locally, which
is often the case since many - most? - of the third-party sites in
question are in the USA, with all the depressing implications that has
for privacy. (Of course, for people already in the USA, this may not
be as big a deal.)
There are reasons I, for example, run my own mailserver, and this is
one of them. I don't trust anyone else with my mail, especially not
someone off in another country. My offsite backups take the form of
two disks which I swap weekly, keeping the non-live one a few miles
from my place. That sort of thing.
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