I happily enjoy the Adobe LR and PS products. But there is great opportunity for new ways of doing LR/PS types of software right now and that is good.
But these two recent problems (hacking and export rules) will become worse not better. We should anticipate that signing up for something popular like Adobe will mean the database we are then part of will be a big target.
Use different passwords for different sites, don't use actual facts for clues they might ask, "what high school did you graduate from"; don't answer your actual high school or starfleet academy.. Make something unique up and keep it in your notes.
We're seeing a patchwork of encryption laws becoming more important on the Internet. Once the virtual wild west that I loved, it's getting more regulated, and in different ways by different countries. I've seen some companies not release software in the EU because privacy rules are different and take longer to comply with. Proving privacy settings or regulating intellectual property rules is pretty simple compared to what we're going to face on the Internet as encryption gets more regulated. It's integral to cloud managed software. Businesses and humans want it, governments everywhere want to weaken it or regulate it in different ways. It's going to get messier as governments dictate functionality of software and communications on the Internet.
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