Diego Duval wonders if the complaints about privacy in Google's GMail miss the point. Sure, Google isn't guaranteeing 100% privacy:
"But let's be realistic. Have Microsoft or Yahoo! or AOL ever guaranteed that? Not that I'm aware of."
The real privacy issue, he writes, is not Google specifically, but centralized systems in general:
"... For me the solution is clear: decentralization, plus end-to-end encryption at the application level based on public-key infrastructure. Centralized systems have their pros and cons, as anything--and it seems that these days it is too easy to imagine that they have to be good (and perfect) for everything, and even more, that a single company has to be responsible for fixing all that's wrong in the world."
Back to CompendiumPost a comment
