Re:Not every cloud has a silver lining by Cory Doctorow
by teeja on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @10:27PM
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As an 'average punter', I'd never never ever put anything I valued into a 'cloud'.
Why become dependent on a service that can walk away at any time? How many times have people been screwed by net schemes that folded ... just for music alone?
Then there's the security question. How many stores and banks have lost millions of customer accounts to hackers? I can protect my stuff better than you can ... simply because it matters to me more than it will ever matter to you ... but also because my storage is part of the diffuse cloud of all users, not the concentrated cloud of a few giants with big bullseyes painted on them.
Why become dependent on a service that can walk away at any time? How many times have people been screwed by net schemes that folded ... just for music alone?
Then there's the security question. How many stores and banks have lost millions of customer accounts to hackers? I can protect my stuff better than you can ... simply because it matters to me more than it will ever matter to you ... but also because my storage is part of the diffuse cloud of all users, not the concentrated cloud of a few giants with big bullseyes painted on them.