Cloud Insecurity??
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Today's CodeProject Daily News had an article entitled "Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now". One of the best parts of the CP Daily News is the one-liner below the headline. For the article above, it was "Why wait for Office 2010 when you can host your files on an untrusted server today?" That's exactly my worry! How secure is one's information stored in places like Windows Skydrive, Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, and the like?? And I worry all the more because they're free. Most people think software is free, so the services built with software ought to be too, but they've got to be making money in this picture somewhere. Are they data mining or something??? (I thought if they are, one of you guys are probably writing the code and would know ;) ) TIA, Bill G.
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Today's CodeProject Daily News had an article entitled "Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now". One of the best parts of the CP Daily News is the one-liner below the headline. For the article above, it was "Why wait for Office 2010 when you can host your files on an untrusted server today?" That's exactly my worry! How secure is one's information stored in places like Windows Skydrive, Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, and the like?? And I worry all the more because they're free. Most people think software is free, so the services built with software ought to be too, but they've got to be making money in this picture somewhere. Are they data mining or something??? (I thought if they are, one of you guys are probably writing the code and would know ;) ) TIA, Bill G.
I see the whole cloud computing thing as just one huge security risk. Why not go back to the "older version" of cloud computing, called a dedicated (and secure) file server? It's got to be better than storing all your data on multiple servers belonging to God-only-knows-who, and rented out to third, fourth, and fifth parties who accesses it through lines, routers, and switches rented from God-only-knows-how-many other people. Making the cloud secure is like trying to make the water in a lake secure.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Today's CodeProject Daily News had an article entitled "Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now". One of the best parts of the CP Daily News is the one-liner below the headline. For the article above, it was "Why wait for Office 2010 when you can host your files on an untrusted server today?" That's exactly my worry! How secure is one's information stored in places like Windows Skydrive, Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, and the like?? And I worry all the more because they're free. Most people think software is free, so the services built with software ought to be too, but they've got to be making money in this picture somewhere. Are they data mining or something??? (I thought if they are, one of you guys are probably writing the code and would know ;) ) TIA, Bill G.
Unfortunately I don't know enough about the security of cloud computing to hold an informed opinion on it, but the data mining remark reminded me of a small brouhaha that arose when GoogleMail was still called GMail. It turns out that Google use a computer to scan outgoing emails for keywords, and bases the advertising in your online inbox on what you send. No logs are kept, but there was a lot of discussion about it sometime in 2004 Just thought you might find it interesting to know. There's an article about it here[^]
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
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Unfortunately I don't know enough about the security of cloud computing to hold an informed opinion on it, but the data mining remark reminded me of a small brouhaha that arose when GoogleMail was still called GMail. It turns out that Google use a computer to scan outgoing emails for keywords, and bases the advertising in your online inbox on what you send. No logs are kept, but there was a lot of discussion about it sometime in 2004 Just thought you might find it interesting to know. There's an article about it here[^]
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow
Basically, cloud computing is a way of letting people know where to put their packet sniffers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Basically, cloud computing is a way of letting people know where to put their packet sniffers.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark Wallace wrote:
Basically, cloud computing is a way of letting people know where to put their packet sniffers.
LOL! I knew there was a purpose!
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Today's CodeProject Daily News had an article entitled "Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now". One of the best parts of the CP Daily News is the one-liner below the headline. For the article above, it was "Why wait for Office 2010 when you can host your files on an untrusted server today?" That's exactly my worry! How secure is one's information stored in places like Windows Skydrive, Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, and the like?? And I worry all the more because they're free. Most people think software is free, so the services built with software ought to be too, but they've got to be making money in this picture somewhere. Are they data mining or something??? (I thought if they are, one of you guys are probably writing the code and would know ;) ) TIA, Bill G.
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Today's CodeProject Daily News had an article entitled "Put Your Microsoft Office Data Into the Cloud Now". One of the best parts of the CP Daily News is the one-liner below the headline. For the article above, it was "Why wait for Office 2010 when you can host your files on an untrusted server today?" That's exactly my worry! How secure is one's information stored in places like Windows Skydrive, Office Live, Google Docs, Zoho, and the like?? And I worry all the more because they're free. Most people think software is free, so the services built with software ought to be too, but they've got to be making money in this picture somewhere. Are they data mining or something??? (I thought if they are, one of you guys are probably writing the code and would know ;) ) TIA, Bill G.
Microsoft and Security. That's the best joke of the century.
Todd Smith