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Just making sure you are aware of shadow profiles, where someone could have your details stored on their phone.
Social network reads all contacts/messages
You don't have an account on their network, but they see you exist
Create a shadow profile on you.
The more of your friends have info on you, the more info they get.
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ha... That's why I don't have friends!
(Well, that's not why, but it sure makes it look intentional now!) 
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A touch more on the shadow network concept.
gmail terms of service allow them to keep your mail and do whatever they want with it for as long as they want to.
OK - so you (and I) don't have gmail. So what. If you ever send email to anyone with gmail, or they send mail to you, a data point is generated with, effectively, your name on it. Another one to another person and they've two points. That, along with the CC's and probably BCC's.
Now they can build up quite a profile on you by implication of common acquaintances.
CP is the closest I come to belonging to a social network. The only other minor difference I can put up is that I can use a different email address for pretty much all the business I transact and give different personal information to everyplace.
Obfuscation is the best you can hope for. To what extent it works - I don't actually know, except my experience w/spam, etc., if extremely low. That, and I punish places that sell my email address to others.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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No trust at all , because we don't know what they will do with our data.
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+10000000!
They never say about any "hidden discussions" with FBI/gov/etc. Apple said, but we have no any log/video from that session so we cannot say for sure "Apple didn't lie under".
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Right. Anything other than the all "1"s I chose is fanciful thinking at best. Of course, it doesn't mean we shouldn't use these services, its just they are not to be blindly trusted - and blind is the only option we have.
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Yep, pretty much equal distrust across the board.
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Seems a lot of people do not trust anyone. What do you have to hide? What are you worried about them doing with your data?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Having it accessed/having it leaked. These days even the notion that a company's data has somehow been compromised can end up destroying that company.
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But if you keep it yourself it can still be access/leaked. Perhaps the challenge is finding the right company to store your data, since they should be better experts than we are at security. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If your data is stored alomg with several million others, it makes a more tempting target than if you keep it yourself and trust no-one.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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I would guess that the majority of us have nothing to hide, today. But what happens when it becomes a crime to be a member of a certain political party or religious group? Suddenly, those pictures of you at a rally or event can be used against you. Suddenly it does matter because at that moment you do have something to hide but are unable to.
Anything posted, stored, shared, etc. on the Internet should be viewed as public information, no matter what type of "security" you think you have in place.
Any cloud provider, under the right circumstances, will gladly hand over your data to the authorities.
My .02
Sincerely,
-Mark
mamiller@rhsnet.org
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Mark Miller wrote: or religious group?
Some would say we're already there for Christians. A topic for the soapbox.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I'm guessing you don't lock your car doors or the doors to your house?
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Albert Holguin wrote: I'm guessing you don't lock your car doors or the doors to your house?
No, I outsource that to Amazon Lock Services. They come and lock my doors for me. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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 With no option for 0 (zero), the results are skewed.
When I do not trust someone / something, DO NOT equates to 0 (zero), if not less.
With a vote of 1, they are getting at least *some* value-add, of which they don't deserve in the slightest.
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Results aren't skewed, 1 is just the new 0 
On a scale from 20 to 30 how disappointed are you? 
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Chevrolet is the new lemon.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Just think of it as being 2 indexed and you'll be fine.
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Seems someone forgot the line
Option Base 1
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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Why is that?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Well the 100-strong cluster of Raspberry Pi 2s that CodeProject runs on is not considered to be "cloud"-like by anyone other than Chris.
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The question asks how much you trust them with sensitive data. Do you have any sensitive data on CodeProject TheGreatAndPowerfulOz? If that even is your real name. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Everything is sensitive at some point.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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