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Also, they'd lose all their customers and probably shut down the Google Drive program entirely While I agree with your thesis on the whole, I am sad to say tha
by dhimes 12y ago
Also, they'd lose all their customers and probably shut down the Google Drive program entirely
While I agree with your thesis on the whole, I am sad to say that this probably won't happen. People will just think, "Well, I'm not writing a novel so this doesn't affect me" and keep on using it.
My interpretation of what they are trying to say is that they may need to modify stuff by wrapping headers on it and so on to make it work with their systems, but they won't steal your ideas or give them away.
- danieldk 12y agoMy interpretation of what they are trying to say is that they may need to modify stuff by wrapping headers on it and so on to make it work with their systems, Or: we make tape backups of data and tapes a shipped to some storage and we cannot guarantee that your data is immediately erased from all our infrastructure (including types) the moment after you delete it.
- wstrange 12y agoThere is a youtube video from a google engineer that talks about their backup. Your data is (supposedly) encrypted with your private key. They can't guarantee that all copies are deleted, but they can (at least in theory) delete the key to make the data inaccessible. Whether you believe them or not is a different story...