[OSX-Users] Re: syncing home mac cal with work via ipod?

[mc schraefel]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:09:07 +0000, Chris Andrews <wolfie at wolfie.me> wrote:
> On 20/01/2011 12:04, mc schraefel wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 11:59:44 +0000, Tim Chown<tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> 
>> wrote:
>>> For 60 quid a year MobileMe seems pretty decent.   Though it seems a
lot
>> of
>>> people don't like it...
>>>
>>> Tim
>>
>> i guess for me i'm not keen on sharing my calendars with a corporation
>> to my knowledge the data is not encrypted with a client only set of keys
>> if
>> it's encrypted at all.
>>
>> y'know.
>>
>> that sort of thing??
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> mc
> 
> The question you need to ask yourself is - is your calendar honestly 
> confidential enough to warrant that kind of worry? I think that about 
> any data I store offsite, and generally I come to the conclusion that 
> it's not worth the bother. My personal email was for a time hosted on 
> GMail, my calendar is hosted by Google, my data is hosted by Dropbox... 
> none of it is actually /that/ confidential - I'm not a spy.
> 
> That said, only you can make that kind of call, so it all comes down to 
> personal feeling. Just my 2p.
> 
> Chris

Yes, i know - this laisez faire attitude about personal data comes up all
the time - is it "that" confidential.
That seems to take a rather beneficent or at least benign view of corp
entities and what they will use/make use of that data for. 

It's intriguing to me how both the notions of privacy and anonymity have
changed hugely in the past decade. 
what we don't see doesn't hurt us? 

or perhaps right now there are not the systems to make more particular use
of this information, or there hasn't been the first facebook or google data
scandal. 

dunno.

I'm also personally uncomfortable with the notion of "if you aren't doing
anything wrong you have nothing to hide" - i'm not saying that's the point
being made here, but do only spys (which you say you are not) have a right
then to anonymous or private interactions? 

a colleague, danny wietzner, says there's no such thing as privacy anymore;
all info will be public so all we can do is have good policy and laws to
deal with what happens when it's accessed inappropriately. 

he's probably right.

doesn't mean i want to give in to that sooner tho.

sigh.
whatever happened to anonymous ecash?
mc