[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Hi Dennis. Because of the word. If it's shredding the file it means it's chopped up in little pieces.

What's the point to chopping a file into little unusable pieces and leaving the pieces around to clutter the drive? If your answer is "None", you got it in one. If your answer is anything else, you need to learn more.

Thanks for the explanation. I don't have anything that important. I just watched "Citizen Four" and it aggravates me that the NSA and all these Google-type companies can pretty much do whatever they want with my data.

<snort>

I see paranoia about the NSA elsewhere, including folks convinced MS is in league with the NSA, and left back doors in Windows so the NSA could snoop on their machines. All I can say is "You wish you were important enough that anyone could be bothered to do that. You're not important, you don't matter, and no one in a position of power cares what you think! You are an insignificant flyspeck on the windowpane of the Internet. Deal with it and get over yourself."

I don't particularly care about Google, either. If I did, I wouldn't use Gmail as my primary email account, polling the others, wouldn't use Google Docs, wouldn't use Google Drive for cloud storage, and wouldn't use various other Google services I find handy. The stuff Google knows about me is not stuff I am concerned with keeping private.

There are three areas where I have privacy concerns: finances, health, and my sex life. My finance records are in the hands of my bank and CC issuers, and my health records are in the hands of my doctors and dentist. Those folks all have legal as well as moral requirements to keep it private. My sex life never gets online to begin with.

For the rest, I'm an open book. I don't worry a lot about things like tracking. The trackers want to better understand who I am and what they might be able to sell me. Fine by me: like everyone else, I buy goods and services, and like everyone else, ads are a way I discover things I might wish to buy. The better targeted the pitch, the less time I spend separating wheat from chaff.

For the odd occasion where I'm poking around in the seamier parts of the Internet, I have the technology to remain anonymous. I just don't normally see a need to deploy it.

Makes me want to try Mega.

I can't be bothered.
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Dennis