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Ask Slashdot: Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud?

Posted by samzenpus on from the silverish-lining dept.

With so much personal data being kept on the cloud, including government and health records or your source code, do you have any concerns about it falling into the wrong hands? Do you think the cloud's benefits are outweighed by continuing security issues?

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  1. ABSOLUTELY !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And what's a cloud, really?

    1. Re:ABSOLUTELY !! by swalve · · Score: 5, Funny

      You need taught grammar.

  2. Data safe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    not a bit

  3. Re:A little telling by rbowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that the first outing of the sponsored Ask Slashdot is a Geeknet company.

    Yes. I'm called the guinea pig.

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  4. a ff7 character? by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a marketing term for a hard drive in a different building from the one you are currently in.

    1. Re:a ff7 character? by Luckyo · · Score: 4, Funny

      A whole server full of hard drives in a different building!

      Slashdot: building consensus.

  5. Re:Who asked this question? by Threni · · Score: 3, Funny

    Find out...right after this message from our sponsors!

  6. Re:A little telling by Cylix · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excellent,

    I was told by a very powerful source that the only way to protect my data was via a contract for my soul. Among the things needed for the incantation a guinea pig was cited.

    Look at Paragraph 367 Subsection 32... "Satan will personally hover over your data with an army of undead ghouls.^3214"

    I'm still trying to find foot note three thousand two hundred fourteen.

    These deals with the devil are almost as bad as FCC mandates.

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  7. Re:A little telling by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not to tell y'all how to run your campaigns, but as a humble suggestion, wouldn't it increase your legitimacy if you paid some nice money to someone with a low UID, say 3 digits or less, to help out?

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  8. Re:Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud? by tgd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is Your Data Safe In the Cloud?

    No. Next story.

    Not yet. The sponsor paid good money for this discussion.

  9. Re:Government action by History's+Coming+To · · Score: 4, Funny

    The Governments have haxxed the Twitter with a program called API, they use it to make databases for each user! / sarcasm

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  10. Re:A little telling by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What would you prefer?

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