FORMICA This is a giant mistake. Running ANY software from the web is a mistake. It can do ANYTHING it wants with your information, and you would never know it. Now I am like most people -- I can't stand Microsoft. But when I am writing a letter on Word, I am very confident that the app isn't transmitting any of my own personal information back to Microsoft because I use an application called Little Snitch to alert me of ANY calls OUT of my computer. But if you are using a WEB-APPLICATION to write that letter, how do you know that any of the constant back-and-forth communication between your computer and the web-app's corporation doesn't include your personal information, like for instance your 1Password database, or you Passwords file, or your web browsing history, or whatever? Go ahead and download the most recent version of Google Earth, then download Little Snitch. Just for one day, count how many times Google Earth calls home -- that is, calls out out over the web back to the home company to do GOD KNOWS WHAT (plus the HUNDREDS of other companies' that now call out to Google Analytics to keep track of their apps' updates). Also, keep track of HOW LONG each one of those calls home lasts. It is SCARY. GOOGLE EARTH ALONE CALLS HOME TWELVE TIMES EVERY DAY, and each call last around 22 seconds! Do you know how much information an application can transmit over a broadband connection in 22 seconds, especially if it had all day to look for whatever it is looking for and organize that info into a packet for rapid transmission during a 22-second broadband connection? What computer software could possibly have a need to call home 12 times a day, and what the hell are those apps telling the home company? And now Mozilla Prism wants to create an independent platform for an unknown number of companies to create applications to do things like word processing, spreadsheet creating and management, and whatever else? That means that without a web browser as the underlying system, THERE WOULD BE NO SYSTEM MONITORING CALLS OVER THE INTERNET FROM YOUR COMPUTER BACK TO THE CORPORATION THAT CREATED THAT APP! Is that what you want -- LESS MONITORING OF CALLS HOME?
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