[LINK] Clouded Vision

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:56 AM 16/05/2009, Roger Clarke wrote:

>(2)  can any designer [sorry, they don't exist any more, I mean
>programmer] actually be fool enough to make an application dependent
>on an optional extra ?? :
>"[Leigh] complained that she couldn't access her bank account online,
>because the bank needed Google Analytics -- Mountain View's web
>traffic analysis utility -- to work"

I'm not sure I would believe that without seeing it myself. It may be 
a different script of something else entirely that's stopping her.

But you're right about anyone being silly to trust their 
unrecoverable data to a third party like that. These should only be 
backup storage, not primary. Reminds me, I should backup my blog. :-)

Jan



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