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What does the HN community think of the greplin concept? They have recently added a Chrome plugin and a greplin search replacement for standard email search. T
by rakkhi 15y ago
What does the HN community think of the greplin concept? They have recently added a Chrome plugin and a greplin search replacement for standard email search.
Think it is a public beta and anyone can signup if not ping me and I'll send you an invite.
My main concerns with the service are:
+ Centralized risk - keys to very valuable kingdom
+ No two factor - but they tell me its coming
+ No word on whether they encrypt in storage - although it should only be an index to the information rather than the actual info
+ Standard SAAS / Cloud risks - internal abuse, legal turnover etc.
Any others? All of these could be mitigated to a reasonable degree. What do you think? Is there a future for this type of service (or big buyout for Google / Bing) or is it just too scary?
- oscilloscope 15y agoIt's an incredible amount of personal data. If all that data was collected, then abused, I'd dissociate from much of my identity. I would just feel totally alienated by post-industrial society. I'd be okay using Greplin if I knew Google was going to acquire them. I trust Google. I figure when Google goes bad, there will be much bigger issues facing humanity and our internet pasts will all be damning anyways.
- jwr 15y ago> I'd be okay using Greplin if I knew Google was going to acquire them. I trust Google. I figure when Google goes bad, there will be much bigger issues facing humanity and our internet pasts will all be damning anyways. I think it is a sign of the times that I read this paragraph, though it was a subtle joke, reread it and decided it was serious, and then did some more thinking about whether the author is serious or not.