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[Roger Clarke]

On 1 November 2013 12:08, Roger Clarke 
<<mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
>But that doesn't appear to be a 'core promise':
"[Evernote] ... reserve the right to establish limits to ... your
continued ability to access ... your Content and other data, and
impose other limitations at any time, with or without notice".

At 14:21 +1100 1/11/13, Jim Birch wrote:
...
>Expecting absolutes is a crazy life strategy ...

No dispute there, of course.


>A more relevant question would be whether my daughter is better 
>served by another solution.  There are costs and risks associated 
>with cloud storage, but are they greater or less than trying to do 
>it yourself?  Plenty of personally-owned storage systems fail 
>catastrophically, even expensive ones run by people with ICT skills. 
>She's a savvy young woman but she doesn't know a lot about backup 
>technologies, neither should she.  Annual subscription to Evernote 
>costs less that buying a 1Tb drive and would be way more reliable, 
>has better features and is easily accessible across locations and 
>platforms.

I'm drawing attention to the risks of blind dependence on services, e.g.

     The Cloudy Future of Consumer Computing (2011)
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/CCC.html

And to the absence of simple, bundled security arrangements (in the 
broad sense, incl. integrity and data survival, as well as malware, 
etc.):

     Why Isn't Security Easier for SMEs and Consumers? (2013)
     http://www.rogerclarke.com/EC/SSACS-13.html


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