Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Sep 2007 13:48 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"The world is changing and online applications are becoming more and more popular, whether for e-mail or word processing. The developers behind Bigboard and Gnome's 'online desktop' initiative think it's time our desktops started catching up. Read on to find an interview with Colin Walters, more information about Bigboard, the online desktop and the obligatory screencast showing it off!"
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There's something about having it physically secure in my home that appeals very strongly over having all my personal information stored places only God knows.
On the one hand I can agree with that arguement. I'm sure this man http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7019644.stm did as well up until recently.
On the other hand I've seen the (physical and data) security at some of these off site data storage facilities and it sure as hell beats the crap out of anything I have in my home, or any office I worked in for that matter. Let me encrypt the data end to end with my own key and I'll be content.
On the third hand being dependant on a net (fast enough) connection to access your data isn't good. So it's not that simple either.