> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:45:33 -0700 > Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > > The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have > to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud.
Correct. Either it's 'local', or it's "somewhere else" -- by definition. :) > Of all the internet entities out there, Google has had the best track record > of protecting your data. As far as we know, that is. Remember the old saying about 'undiscovered bugs'. <wry grin> > You can even download it all and erase yourself if > you want out. Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'. Specific example -- if you request a USENET posting to be removed, all they do is make it 'invisible' to the world. It is _not_ removed from the databases, or from inernal access/use.