[145819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facebook insecure by design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Mon Oct 24 10:55:50 2011
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:54:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no05kjX8Uy+iOy-nOOt5TsFcA8CSufLJ8WUc4D1OX5gj5FA@mail.gmail.com>
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> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:45:33 -0700
> Subject: Re: Facebook insecure by design
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>
> The way I look at it, unless you want to host everything yourself, you have
> to choose "someone" to be your Unix like home directory in the cloud.
Correct. Either it's 'local', or it's "somewhere else" -- by definition. :)
> Of all the internet entities out there, Google has had the best track record
> of protecting your data.
As far as we know, that is.
Remember the old saying about 'undiscovered bugs'. <wry grin>
> You can even download it all and erase yourself if
> you want out.
Don't count on it. You may 'disappear' from public view, but that does
not necessarily mean the data is truely 'gone'. Specific example -- if you
request a USENET posting to be removed, all they do is make it 'invisible'
to the world. It is _not_ removed from the databases, or from inernal
access/use.