[PLUG-TALK] Amazon Cloud Drive
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Apr 3 14:00:00 UTC 2011
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Is anyone using Amazon Cloud Drive?
Dick,
No. I would not.
> Any other concerns I should make her aware of?
While every technological advance has been predicated upon its beneficial
uses, someone will find a way to apply it for harm. All software has
vulnerabilities. Not all are exploited, but the potential exists. I would
not store any of my personal or business data on someone else's system.
Period. I'm concered when I learn that organizations holding data about me
store them external to their systems.
Not all the problems are technilogical or digital. How many times have we
read in the Oregonian about someone's laptop with private data being stolen
from a vehicle (stupid for leaving it there in the first place), an office,
or a residence? What if a user makes a careless error that opens a port?
Just yesterday I read about this new exploited vulnerability on web sites
hosted on Microsoft's SQL Server/2003 and /2005. It redirects users to a
sham site where information is captured. Apparently several million systems
have been affected and the two IP addresses (both hosted overseas) keep
changing as they're discovered.
We'll never have perfect security. I would rather put up with
inconvenience and lower efficiency to retain greater privacy. I recongnize
that I'm in the minority, but I'll do what I can for myself.
Rich
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