> Tangential to the article You got me. Hopefully my point is interesting regardless though -- basically that some companies like Pinterest are vulnerable in w

> Tangential to the article You got me. Hopefully my point is interesting regardless though -- basically that some companies like Pinterest are vulnerable in ways that others like Square aren't. > Moreover, it'd be tough to position the product because it's essentially the same service, but with privacy benefits. Oh man, I'm glad you brought this up. I think one of the only interesting insights I have here is that _the personal server stuff is totally tangential to privacy_. Personal servers are cool because they're useful and technically sweet -- I can move from querying my friend's review of a software product, to looking at his code using that software, to reading his blog posts about it, all without leaving the same datastore (on his side) or the same UI (on mine). Right now that would involve searching Acme Software Co's website, then GitHub, then Blogger, which is a plain worse process. EDIT: spelling