Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman

"Aswin M. Sahadevan" aswinms@gmail.com wrote:

IMO, Google would not do anything to screw up the reputation that they've oh-so-carefully built in the past decade. It will be ridiculous if it was expected of each and every person to host a server. I agree that privacy is not guaranteed when you use such services but these are risks that are inevitable.

Why not encrypt, wherever possible, wherever you're concerned about privacy? SMTP itself is not designed with privacy or authenticity as the greatest concerns (presumably because of separation of mechanisms and policies yada yada). That's how PGP and GnuPG came to be, true?