Go DuckDuckGo yourself

My favorite photo managing software is Picasa. I’ve been using it since before Google bought it. Now of course Google is shutting it down and no longer updating it. I love Google, but it’s getting annoying the way they shut products down. They are really making me second guessing about using any of their new products. With the loss of Picasa, I’m starting to learn Lightroom. There is a little bit of a learning curve, but in the end I’ll probably be better off. It’s a pretty powerful program.

I have a coworker who is one of those people that is afraid of Google. He thinks I’m crazy to use Gmail. He think they read all the emails. I tried to explain to him that it wasn’t people reading your mail, but just a computer scanning it to block your spam, and maybe show you some ads. Big deal. Every email service that fights spam does it. To be online you have to trust some companies with your personal data. There really is no practical way around it. Why be worried about Google? Your ISP knows even more. I guess some people are just more paranoid than others. I’m more worried about my passwords. I use long ass passwords that are randomly generated, so I don’t even know them. I never answer those stupid security questions correctly, and use two factor authentication on every site that has it. So even if you were to get my password, you would also have to get my phone to get into my email. Good luck with that.

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