On Nov 4, 2007 8:39 PM, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > > Bob La Quey wrote: > > > >> BobLQ "via gmail" > > > > And yet I won't use gmail because I don't *trust* gmail. > > Precisely. I don't trust anyone else with my email. And soon my email > also will reside at AIS.
What is AIS? During the last decade I can only think of one or two times when I had anything in email that I would object to being public. So it is hard for _me_ to care about email security. I am perfectly at ease with other people wanting every scrap of messaging they do completely secure. I just don't see any reason for them to push this fetish off on me, nor for that matter on most people. I believe very much in privacy. I just don't use or feel any particular need for anything other the rare email message to be private. Others situations are no doubt different. > And I do not expect many companies to trust > Google with all of their critical data. Nor do I. > I actively discourage depending > on other companies for the success of our business. This is a non-starter. Your business is probably dependent upon a huge web of other businesses for its success. The question is not _if_ one will depend on other businesses but _what_ will one choose to farm out. Example money. Does your business depend on money? Do you use a bank? Why do you trust a bank to take care of your money? I could rant on but I think you get the point. A business needs to determine what it has to add that has value and focus on that. >And placing all of > our email, documents, spreadsheets in googles hands sounds like a recipe > for disaster. Instead what needs to be done is to determine what really matters and what it is worth. That is somewhat more difficult than simply saying it is all important. Then deploy internal and external resources to deal with the issues appropriately. > For more on this topic please read this blog entry I made a while back > after a friend got burned by Yahoo: > > http://tracyreed.org/blog/archive/2006/10/08/yahoogmailhotmail-etc-all-suck-and-i-renew-my-vow-to-never-use-windows I will get back to this later. I promise. Gotta go, BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
