[identity profile] catamorphism.livejournal.com 2004-09-08 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I don't, but in the first case, I don't use the phone for anything I wouldn't want broadcast on the front page of the New York Times (not because I don't trust the phone company, but because I don't like talking on the phone), and in the second case, I *do* trust my ISP -- my ISP is just this one guy and he seems pretty cool -- but of course I don't trust every ISP that owns a server that a packet might travel through on its way to my inbox. But in that case, I kind of have to go with it in order to use email (unless I want to encrypt everything, which makes it harder for other people to communicate with me, etc, etc, and isn't necessarily foolproof). In the case of the locator service, I'm not really sure how much benefit I would derive from it (I get along fine without it now), so I have little incentive to acquire yet *another* entity that I Just Have To Trust.