[SATLUG] new Google service

Daniel J. Givens daniel at rugmonster.org
Mon Apr 2 12:12:03 CDT 2007


Christian Osso wrote:
> With everyone signed up onto the gmail database and now allowing google into their homes via this service (oh look honey, it's free!), H. Ross Perot just might be around long enough to warn us of an entirely new "sucking sound":  that of our minds and souls being sucked through the ether, all the way to Mountain View.  At the very least, I smell painfully high switching costs on the horizon for millions around the world who never saw them coming.  Ain't nothin' "free".

And being on any other ISP is any better? They can all access your stuff
unless you encrypt it.

Geez, you would think some people had never heard of April Fools'...


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