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Do your worry about mail servers being compromised? Or about people forwarding photos without your permission?

• pchristensen 19y ago
  Oh come on, I told you upfront that I was being irrational! OK, mail servers could be compromised, but I think my pics would be safe by obscurity b/c intruders would be looking for email addresses, account numbers, passwords, etc. And I pretty much only forward pics to close family members. I think having run a blog and looking at logs, it's a little scary how many random sources from all over the internet (I mean world) can get to any public facing page. That's a lot scarier than what my aunt or cousin would do with a picture of my family. But mostly, it's a choice between two things: 1) keep my pics on my hard drive (with private copies on S3 for backup) - Pros: no effort, little risk. Con: no one else gets to see my pics 2) post them somewhere else: Pro: family, etc can see my pics. Cons: more effort, more cost (?), the genie is out of the bottle, have to either administer it properly or publicly expose. I know that ourdoings is dirt simple and has the privacy features I would want, which is why I said I'd use it if I ever got around to photo sharing. I know it's the one I'd recommend to anyone who asks.
  • brlewis 19y ago
    I wasn't trying to be accusative. I'm just trying to see what does/doesn't cause worry. Thanks for offering to recommend it, but that won't do much good if the people you recommend it to have the same worries.
    • pchristensen 19y ago
      Sorry, I meant to put a ;) after my !. Don't worry, most people aren't as [secretive | paranoid | aware] as I am.