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

    not a bit

  2. 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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    Apache guy, Open Source enthusiast, runner
  3. 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.

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

    You need taught grammar.

  5. 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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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10