Re: does anyone have a working mozilla firefox-74.0 on 9.0 amd64?

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:41:41PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> +1. Not to mention how insecure it is. I don't mind GMail for low
> value stuff like personal emails. But corporations have no business
> putting your data, like ssn, employment records and health records, in
> these clouds. They are just storage provided by a third party. More
> hands fingering the data...
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman

I think Richard Stallman's article over-generalizes the term `cloud' and
writes it off.

It's also a 12 year old article and hope he refined his views.

While there is a need to be educated and aware of the risks, make a
conscious judgment about risks and value derived, there is no need to
generally write off the cloud totally.

Cloud is not just gmail (and alike). Cloud has different models like SaaS
and IaaS and so on. Yes, each has risks, and the ways to assess and
mitigate them are different. And the assessment is not fully objective. It
involves measures like credibility, security track record of a provider
etc.

But it doesn't mean we generalize and sit in a denial disconnecting from
the ecosystem. There has to be a sensible middle ground.

Mayuresh