darkemeralds. (Reply)

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Er, No, I'm not trying to figure out how to re-do my online life. I am very, very comfortable on DW, it suits me. I have no reservation at all about posting a short, one line post. All the FB, Twitter, G+ etc sites all sound WAY too public for me, and I -----LOATH----- data mining. I'm very hard to reach with advertising! ;)

WAY back in about 96, or 97 we began to hear about "Cloud Computing" in some big trade shows. I thought about it then, thought about the advantage/problem ratio and decided that it was heavily weighted toward the problem side, with problems so severe that I thought they completely overcame any temptation I had to use the service. To this day I maintain those concerns, concerns recently validated by security breeches in Cloud services. I freely admit that the convenience of using the Cloud is tempting, but there is no way that I would. It is tempting in the same way that wireless routers are. What a convenient thing, a wireless router. How completely invasive Google was to drive around and record internet traffic on private networks. That is why my house is, and always was, hard wired; that way it -does- take a court order (or a really good hacker).

I'm very sorry that you find DW contentious, and certainly hope that I haven't contributed.