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Are people really okay with both giving lots of details about what they are working on to an untrusted third party and committing to a tool that may uncontrolla

Are people really okay with both giving lots of details about what they are working on to an untrusted third party and committing to a tool that may uncontrollably change or disappear depending on what the maintainer decides to do with it? I suppose I could use it for hobby projects. For work stuff, untrusted third parties having a free view at my workflow is just straight out, so there goes one big use for the system. For everyday household stuff, my TODO list could be leaking medical and financial information, which is again a privacy problem. At the very least I would have to make sure both my account info and the contents of the tasks were carefully scrubbed of any identifying information. Seems like troublesome enough that I'd probably give the thing a pass in this situation too.

jessep 16y ago
Our users are saying that they use it for work and pretty much everything. Also, we allow easy exporting of your whole list, so you're not going to lose all your data.
Swizec 16y ago
There's a simple solution to this problem -> realising that it is surprisingly easy for anyone with the interest to track you around town as you do your stuff and to plant bugs in your office. The info they get that way is much more useful and detailed than anything you ever write down on a TODO list. If they're just reading your stuff as a passing curiosity because they accidentally can, then they are not a threat as they have no use for the information.
- tome 16y ago
  There's a simple solution to this problem -> realising that it is surprisingly easy for anyone with the interest to track you around town as you do your stuff and to plant bugs in your office. This is completely false. There might be a handful of people with the time and willingness to do this who also find themselves in a suitable location. There are probably hundreds of thousands who could do it on the internet.

jessep 16y ago

Our users are saying that they use it for work and pretty much everything. Also, we allow easy exporting of your whole list, so you're not going to lose all your data.

Swizec 16y ago

There's a simple solution to this problem -> realising that it is surprisingly easy for anyone with the interest to track you around town as you do your stuff and to plant bugs in your office. The info they get that way is much more useful and detailed than anything you ever write down on a TODO list. If they're just reading your stuff as a passing curiosity because they accidentally can, then they are not a threat as they have no use for the information.

tome 16y ago
There's a simple solution to this problem -> realising that it is surprisingly easy for anyone with the interest to track you around town as you do your stuff and to plant bugs in your office. This is completely false. There might be a handful of people with the time and willingness to do this who also find themselves in a suitable location. There are probably hundreds of thousands who could do it on the internet.