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What I truly love about this article is it shows how many open source alternatives exist out there. I think the big problem with people is they think there isn'
by mrt0mat0 13y ago
What I truly love about this article is it shows how many open source alternatives exist out there. I think the big problem with people is they think there isn't a tool that can be equivalent to what they use now. I am also stuck on facebook. I like your indirect solution though!
- dylangs1030 13y agoIt isn't equivalent to what they use now! How would a private cloud someone hacked together be as secure as the billions of dollars Google has poured into engineering elite, class-A data security? Before someone accuses me of fanboying Google, recognize that (as I stated in a top level comment), Google as a company is probably one of the safest in the world for your data. The only leg someone has to stand on in saying an open source alternative might trump Google is that the company willfully allows access to their data, bypassing the heavy security entirely. If you want to make that argument, fine, but you better have something else prepared aside from the NSA scandal regurgitation.
- mrt0mat0 13y agohttp://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/keeping-your-data-safe.html http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/keeping-your-da... http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/10/cloud-hack-via-google.aspx http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/10/cloud-hack-via-google.asp... i guess this was before google poured the billions into it with it's engineering elite, class-A data security. Google may be more secure but google is also a big target. a personal cloud is less likely to get hacked. if i live in the woods with $1000 and only have one lock, i'm probably less likely to be broken into than a giant bank filled with tons of money in the middle of a city, even with it's heavier security.