Plus web software as a service is a lot more dynamic, which I feel is great. There’s been a lot of changes and updates to the site as I’ve been using it.

Don’t let the media fool you into a panic state, the data in IPD’s is largely personal as opposed to security sensitive I’d imagine. Not many people even password protect their phone!

As interesting as our discussion is I feel it’s going a bit off topic though.

It’s the best things going at the moment for viewing IPD files if you ask me. They may develop it to a standalone peice of software too, which would please both sides of the discussion

As for the average web server being a lot more secure, I totally disagree. I’ve seen lots of stories in the mainstream media about massive databases getting broken into and all the customer data getting stolen. Your home computer is a heckuva lot more secure than some startups web server, not because it has all sorts of active security (firewalls), but because it is so small that it’s not worth it for a hacker to try to get into. With a lot of people uploading all their data to one server, it makes it a much more tempting target and more likely to be attacked.

Good point about just uploading non-sensitive IPD files. Should be a recommended way of using this web site.

Plus if your worried about your messages when you create an IPD file just pick the relevant databases, so if you only want to view contacts, only upload an IPD file containing the contacts database.

An average web server will be a hell of a lot more secure than the average home users computer.

There’s a lot of pros and cons for and against viewing your data online as opposed to on your computer but I think its the best solution out there at the moment for viewing ipd file data.

Why? You’re not worried about someone who works at this web site looking at your data? Or someone hacking into this web site’s servers and looking at your data?

It certainly seems a lot less safe than looking at it on my own computer.