OT: Gmail and cloud-dependencies (was: Conducting end user surveys and analyze data)

[Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>]

* Paul Rudin <paul@rudin.co.uk> wrote:
>
> But you can pull all your email out of gmail via pop or imap, so
> it's not like you'll lose your emails. 

There are cases where people lost access to Gmail instantly because
of false accusations or idendity theft. You have to prepare *now*
for not losing yous emails if you don't synchronize often.

> At worst you'd lose your email address (although if you register a
> domain name then you can keep your email address and still use
> gmail for as long as it's there and some other provider later).

You'll lose some more. At least you are going to lose your labels
AFAIR.

> On the privacy point, you can send encrypted data via non-secure
> email providers.

But that's even more pain in the a**.

Besides the point that you'll lose search functionality on Gmail,
you have to find a reliable system that supports you with de- and
encryption. Then you have to trust those tools which are often
browser-based. I would not trust web-browser-modules and
web-browsers at all. Those tools will never see my private GnuPG
key.

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