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"They seem really attached to the idea that the data (or as they ponderously call it, 'the corpus') they have is very valuable." This is very scary. This likel
by st3fan 16y ago
"They seem really attached to the idea that the data (or as they ponderously call it, 'the corpus') they have is very valuable."
This is very scary. This likely means that their data ... No, YOUR private data, is sitting on their servers, completely UNENCRYPTED.
Your bookmarks, your history.
This worries me greatly. If they can use YOUR private data to make money, then they can also give YOUR private data to any government organization that asks for it.
This is stark contract with for example Firefox Sync, which uses strong cryptography that is initiated by the client. The server simply stores encrypted blobs. There is no way anyone can look into your data. Or analyze it. Or sell it. Or give it away. Or get hacked and expose it.
Encrypted data is worth nothing to anyone except YOU the owner.
- jonknee 16y agoIf the Feds want your bookmarks they can already get them now. I can't think of anything exciting in my bookmarks, maybe you somehow have a bunch of secrets in yours?
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- htsh 16y agoI don't think you're fighting effectively by screaming and calling the person you're talking to uneducated. Fighting for privacy is great, but you're not always going to be right just because you're on the right side. I think there's a valid point made here, that bookmarks aren't that much of a worry relative to other information. Also, xmarks has been quite open about their practice of using these bookmarks to make money to operate. They have never hidden the fact that they were working on a curated search engine with this data. -h