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Why anyone uses the cloud is beyond me.
Go ahead, put your data out there.
Suckers.
Death to hackers!
The reason I never put anything in the cloud. Carbonite backups will probably be targeted too. I predicted this long ago (at least 12 years ago). I always figured the government was one of the forces for making people want to back up to the cloud so they could data mine it.
If it’s not on an encrypted drive in your physical possession you might as well post it on facebook or twitter.
Access to any cloud based repository or any server for that matter should be nailed to registered devices or the end user should have the option of turning a registry on. For example, in developing apps for the mobile platforms we built code that looks at the data on each mobile device. There are numerous things in your phone that can be used to fingerprint the phone. A unique fingerprint can be built for that phone and it cannot be spoofed. Once the fingerprint is sent to the server only that device can use the credentials the user has in combination with the fingerprint. This technique means that there are additional layers of hassle, when the user buys a new phone for example. But that can be handled pretty easily.
Why companies don’t implement simple things like this makes no sense.
This sounds like good news for Apple Pay users.
In the early 60s, "the cloud" existed only in the realm of weather reports.
But there was another sinister belief, bordering on dogma. Central computers and batch processing, a yet hidden concept eventually revived as "The Cloud," 50 years later.
A funny thing happened in between. Businesses, specially technical and scientifically oriented individual businesses, adamantly insisted on the eventual control of their own data, for many reasons that should be clearly evident.
With the "Personal Computer" revolution, all bets were off and the computer universe was redefined, and there is no turning back. Central control by the government, or anyone else was rendered impossible. The ultimate liberation.
Along came the internet, the cellular phone system, cheap satellite communications, and wireless communications, and the Monster of Total Control, long thought dead came back to life.
To digress a moment, Jonathan Gruber, among other things, became the reluctant savior of the populace, albeit unconsciously, against the new monster, Central Control of everything by the ultimate threat to Freedom, Central Government Control. There is a general sense of alarm, which previously did not exist.
Gruber, should be Time's Man of the Year.
There is controversy about whether it is possible for communications generally, and the internet specifically, the cellular system and wireless communications, in the macro sense dependent on satellites, to be turned off completely from a central controlling authority. The jury is still out.
All that does is to alarm those who are aware, as to whether the point of no return has been reached, and that we are all helpless to prevent it.
The only glimmer of hope is the existence of (hundreds?) of millions of individually controlled small and large computers distributed world wide. The only threat to those is the voluntary acceptance of "Clouds" the proliferation of which may be arrested by sober reflection of the implication of their threat.
Me?
I don't have data that is critical to anything external to myself. Yet I continue to eschew "clouds" and the perverse impulse for control that it represents.
Of course, cheap gigabites hard drives and arrays may be outlawed as National Security Threats and as individuals we will all be screwed, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
Also, I refuse to cooperate with the current trend to make it impossible to BUY useful software, to own it and to maintain full control of it; another manifestation of the "Cloud" monster, and the intended redefinition of software to something "rented and subject to recall" at any time, with the resulting effect of making privately archived data useless.
We do live in interesting times.
LOL! Suckers!
Which is why I don’t use “the cloud” except to share materials for church.