Can Google Apps Improve Security?
I've been arguing for shifting from desktop appliciations network based applications because we can more effectively secure servers and high-powered client devices are too much of a resource for spammers and botnet herders. Now Google is making Google Apps official (A Google Package Challenges Microsoft - New York Times). Good.
Google isn't alone in this market, ThinkFree offers a similar product. This is a trend in the right direction. We don't want to exchange security problems in bloated client software for insecure Ajax code in Web clients but we can address those problems.
What is needed for this to take off? For starters, Google needs to demonstrate they are serious about security (which I believe they are) by fixing Google Desktop.
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