23 Feb
2011
23 Feb
'11
11:39 a.m.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:52:44PM +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Apart from some very trivial ones I've never seen one that
was any better. I've seen a lot of them that are a pain to use.
Or elementary security awareness. If exposing the old and deprecated
non-ssh based X11 interface is a bad idea (there's no discussion about
that probably), then storing your data unprotected on a third party
system certainly is. And then there are the legal issues. If you store
some data obtained under NDA in a Google App, do you violate the NDA ?
I'd say yes. What if a medical doctor stores his patient's files this
way ? Most professional activities involve keeping confidential data
of some sort. I would not hesitate to say that Google Apps is a no-go
for that reason alone.
Ciao,
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FA
On 2/23/11, Philipp Überbacher
<hollunder(a)lavabit.com> wrote:
A realistic one I'd say. Using a web interface implies you have
already a working system, and by no means a minimal one.
Example number one is the CUPS web interface,
accessible using the
obvious address http://localhost:631. First of all it gives me the
creeps every time I have to use it, because I have to use the browser to
modify my system.
So problem number one is that you have old-fashioned view on system
configuration. Besides that
the interface is slow and buggy, despite running on the
same machine. I wouldn't call it a good interface in general.
So problem number two is that because CUPS's UI is bad, you
extrapolate that on other web UIs. Very interesting. The other
example is google docs/spreadsheet which I have to use
sometimes. There are the obvious privacy concerns, it should be clear
that giving your possibly sensitive data to what's probably the worlds
biggest Ad company isn't a good idea.
So problem number three is conspiracy theories.