Google Chrome Notebook - Is it safe?

I received a video from a friend of my via facebook. It was about Google Chrome Notebook. Here is the video



What I would like to discuss here is the security concern when using this. No doubt that this will save us a lot especially there will no worries of losing unfinished work when your machine crash and no worries of carrying extra hard-disk for storing your data and no worries of where to get your data when you are on vacation. The only things you need to ensure is to have very good internet connection (stability and high bandwidth) which here in Malaysia it is still far from achieving it (I'll discuss this in other issues).

What concern me as one of people involves in information security is security issues related to using Chrome Notebook. What about our privacy and data protection. How safe are we? How trusted are we on Google which will not leak our data to others? How safe is Google and how strong Google protecting our data from being hack/exploit/access by unwanted user? Will Google be able to handle tons of data? How good and reliable is the Chrome Notebook?

This are few basic questions circling my thought when I first saw this video. When Facebook came into the pictures, there are security concern and there are still as Facebook never block other people from copying pictures they found in the facebook. What do you think about Chrome? Will Chrome have the ability to prevent others from cut-n-paste your documents into theirs?

This are basic security that Chrome MUST address first or at least those people that have intention to use Chrome notebook to think about it and reconsider before making such decision. It is Mobility, Flexibility, Cost Saving, and Availability versus Privacy, Trust, and Data Protection.