Dell guys are great guys, but IT'S NOT working

cemkaner said:
Some of my grad students liked Chrome, including students who were sophisticated about software security.

However, I have concerns about Google's and Facebook's use of customer / user / third-party-but-surveilled-anyway data and their history with courts and the regulatory agencies gives me little confidence that they will respect my privacy in the future. To my eyes, using a Google computer gives Google too much access to my financial records and investing strategies and too little insight into how they will use that information. So I don't use their computers, tablets or phones.

Again, my opinion is based on factors other than performance or reliability. Your priorities and mine might differ.
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Yeah but chromebook data is not stored on the hard drive but on cloud and I would have thought a personal cloud account which is not free, would be secure from Google snooping.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/data-security-google-cloud
 
themickey said:
Yeah but chromebook data is not stored on the hard drive but on cloud and I would have thought a personal cloud account which is not free, would be secure from Google snooping.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/data-security-google-cloud
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VIII. SUMMARY
We investigate what data iOS on an iPhone shares with Apple
and what data Google Android on a Pixel phone shares with
Google. We find that even when minimally configured and the
handset is idle both iOS and Google Android share data with
Apple/Google on average every 4.5 mins. The phone IMEI,
hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI, handset
phone number etc are shared with Apple and Google. Both
iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user
explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both iOS
and Google Android send details to Apple/Google. iOS sends
the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and
the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location.
Currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing
this data sharing.
 
spy said:
VIII. SUMMARY
We investigate what data iOS on an iPhone shares with Apple
and what data Google Android on a Pixel phone shares with
Google. We find that even when minimally configured and the
handset is idle both iOS and Google Android share data with
Apple/Google on average every 4.5 mins. The phone IMEI,
hardware serial number, SIM serial number and IMSI, handset
phone number etc are shared with Apple and Google. Both
iOS and Google Android transmit telemetry, despite the user
explicitly opting out of this. When a SIM is inserted both iOS
and Google Android send details to Apple/Google. iOS sends
the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and
the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location.
Currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing
this data sharing.
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Ok, that's mobile phone security and I agree that mobiles imo are distributors of information.
But trading computers/laptops and in particular google cloud storage / chrome & android operating systems, I think google cloud is safer than trusting Microsoft with data on your hard drive.
Emails, that's a different kettle of fish again, I don't trust any emails for sharing confidential data.
 
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