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How 'The Cloud' Eats Away at Your Online Privacy (Video)
Tom Henderson, Principal Researcher at ExtremeLabs Inc., is not a cloud fan. He is a staunch privacy advocate, and this is the root of his distrust of companies that store your data in their memories instead of yours. You can get an idea of his (dis)like of vague cloud privacy protections and foggy vendor service agreements from the fact that his Network World columnn is called Thumping the Clouds. We called Tom specifically to ask him about a column entry titled The downside to mass data storage in the cloud.
Today's video covers only part of what Tom had to say about cloud privacy and information security, but it's still an earful and a half. His last few lines are priceless. Watch and listen, or at least read the transcript, and you'll see what we mean.
Today's video covers only part of what Tom had to say about cloud privacy and information security, but it's still an earful and a half. His last few lines are priceless. Watch and listen, or at least read the transcript, and you'll see what we mean.
I have a raspberry pi that I use to host a personal website. It is just for me and a couple friends and it associates a free subdomain with my home dynamic IP.
I have access to my home movie and music library anywhere, can remote into my home systems whenever I want from my phone, and can host any file I want on line without having to give it to a third party.
That's the trick. Remove the third party.
Is it more expensive to self host? Not really. I want these things stored locally anyway. So I just link my local drives to the pi. So self hosting cost me about 25 dollars... total and done.
The only thing I use the cloud for is offsite backups and only of a few critical things.
Beyond that, why involve a third party?
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.