tom jennings on Nostr: To me, it seems like every online provider of services is like this, it's just a ...
To me, it seems like every online provider of services is like this, it's just a matter of degree. It's foolish to "trust" any of them.
Internet-only services are ideology driven -- they believe (or at least act like) tcp/ip is the world. It's not. All of it is for people, us. The tech obsessed will kill us all.
When all else fails, which is not rare when you have millions of users, you must have some out of band service; phone or a walk up counter.
Animals in the wild usually don't explore new spaces without seeing an exit other than the one they came in on. That's smart. For Google, I maintain multiple Gmail ("Google") accounts, one per critical function. Separate ones for web buckets, phone, two separate recovery email. Mail forwarding within each, to others. Non Google email recovery.
DNS in Germany. Cloud storage in Zurich. My own hard drives and one NAS. Minimal but thorough encryption keys.
I do nothing unusual, nothing of value beyond my life's computer work. I think this is a minimum for passable daily use.
I'm often shocked when I hear peoples standard practices. Saving infinite email or texts on provider services -- anything they have will get used against you or exploited, extract your value and store it yourself and delete it.
Have we learned no lessons?
Internet-only services are ideology driven -- they believe (or at least act like) tcp/ip is the world. It's not. All of it is for people, us. The tech obsessed will kill us all.
When all else fails, which is not rare when you have millions of users, you must have some out of band service; phone or a walk up counter.
Animals in the wild usually don't explore new spaces without seeing an exit other than the one they came in on. That's smart. For Google, I maintain multiple Gmail ("Google") accounts, one per critical function. Separate ones for web buckets, phone, two separate recovery email. Mail forwarding within each, to others. Non Google email recovery.
DNS in Germany. Cloud storage in Zurich. My own hard drives and one NAS. Minimal but thorough encryption keys.
I do nothing unusual, nothing of value beyond my life's computer work. I think this is a minimum for passable daily use.
I'm often shocked when I hear peoples standard practices. Saving infinite email or texts on provider services -- anything they have will get used against you or exploited, extract your value and store it yourself and delete it.
Have we learned no lessons?