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

[Chris Andrews]

On 20/01/2011 12:25, mc schraefel wrote:
> 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.

Maybe I just trust people/companies too much, but I fail to see what 
useful information they could glean from my calendar - it's barely any 
use to me.

> 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?

Glad you're not saying that's the point being made, since to 
characterise my comments as "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have 
nothing to hide" is totally misunderstanding them.

Of course everyone has a right to private, off-the-grid interactions, 
but there's a very good way of doing that /and/ having a nice big synced 
calendar... scribble the secret stuff on a bit of paper, or write it in 
a local text file, or something like that. Somehow, I've managed it so far.

> 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.

In which case, maybe rolling your own sync solution is a good idea, but 
doing it with an iPod and two computers isn't going to work, 
unfortunately. If I were trying to do it myself, I'd suggest having your 
computers automatically SSH to each other and exchange calendars, but 
I'm not sure of the technicalities of that.

Chris