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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.
a) everyone on Slashdot knows that "cloud" and "your privacy" are contradictory
b) hint, people not on Slashdot won't see the article, so posting it is irrelevant
c) video articles suck balls, nobody wants to hear some dork talk when they could read the piece in 1/4 of the time
http://arstechnica.com/informa... /sarcasm
'The unexamined life is not worth living' - Socrates
... it's already become entrenched. Facebook, Steam, MMO's, F2P, etc. The only way to put this back in the box would be to take over these companies and I simply don't see that happening. Technology has advanced to the point that corporations will share everything as long as it makes them a buck and they've gotten too used to having exact information about everything. The market is totally transparent to companies. Who you are, where you live, etc. Because you have to provide them with things like your credit card information.
Somebody could melt my PC and my code would be safe. Startups can serve their sites and application data from the cloud without having to invest in expensive server farms. When the robots that manage social media websites get confused by a stalker's reports and consequently won't even let you post pictures of yourself or your own family, the cloud is the only option you have left to protect digital memories.
I don't like it. I don't like that the safety of our data, from the perspective of security and persistence, are entrusted to faceless businesses. But we were already subject to that massive vulnerability before cloud computing. Imagine how devastating it would be if your email service suddenly shut down and you didn't have enough time to update people and move data. These businesses hold our entire lives in the palms of their hands, and there's nothing to do about it except to disconnect permanently.
But to say that the cloud is useless is simply wrong. Most dangerous things are useful. Technology is always a healing staff on one end and a blade on the other. Did you ever finish Deus Ex: Human Revolution? Did you pay attention to the ending? Most of the part of humanity that influences our progress has already chosen to side with Sarif.
Old man yells at cloud
ownCloud 8 on my Raspberry Pi is working just fine for me.
The Google Plus logo in the corner gives this video a special kind of hilarity.
Been hearing this argument for years. It's still valid, but comes down to how much you care. I store my music with Amazon, but that's mostly because I want to have access to it everywhere. My CDs were ripped years ago and exist on my home server and Amazon and Google. I use Amazon and Google, but if something happens to either of those, I still have my originals. It's more likely that my home RAID array will eat itself before Amazon or Google get corrupted.
Old man yells at cloud.
The upside is that my problems are now someone else's problems.
I no longer need to manage my long-term backups for my team's projects. They go off to a cloud provider, and if we really need something, we can get it back, and I don't have to worry about keeping tapes or disks around, and I don't have to be the one going through the library to find some old media. Data is encrypted prior to archival, so privacy isn't really a big deal.
I no longer have to worry about constant availability. If my local servers go down for a few minutes, maybe a user will notice. If they're down for an hour, I'll probably get an annoyed email, but I will get that email because our constant-availability services are hosted elsewhere.
Now, I do still have local servers to manage. I do still keep a decent number of nines, and I do still make my nightly backups, but I don't need to be managing every aspect of every problem. I can push that responsibility elsewhere, and make my workload more manageable without bringing on significantly more risk.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
Your facial features, voice and speech patterns have now been included in the cloud databases. Thank you for your cooperation.
If private data is defined as what you don't want others to see and public data is defined as what you want others to see, which is appropriate for the cloud? Seems easy to me: if you need to keep secrets, keep it off the internet. And you might think about how easy security is if you only use your powers for good not evil.
Fifty years of Yippie! 1968-2018
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.
Nowadays there's nothing it can't mean, but I originally understood it to mean "Virtual machine hosted on lots of identical nodes with no guarantee of uptime for any one node" -- as opposed to a mainframe, or time-shared machine.
Then it sort of became "Use the Internet to store things normally kept on your computer, have your content on all your devices." Well, ok, but that's what the Web is.
Then it was existing, long-established companies just rebranding their service without any change. "Cloud email!" Um, wat.
Wonder what the public key field is for?
Since the advent of Windows Server 10 which promotes use of cloud storage through integration there is some benefit to it in terms of redundancy, however there is a pretty nasty down side, the 'cloud' serves as an example of a high valued target for Tommy 10 year old script kiddy hidden behind likely only one layer of admin security. In essence the cloud violates the first rule of security, don't put all your eggs in one basket. Then there is the government that is walking the edge of going bankrupt since 1971 and floating on credit ever since that is always looking for ways to make money with hungry corporations looking for marketing data, then there is the aspect of corruption within government doing the same only with a bit more visibility than your average Joe to find targets and way more stingy about it.
I never did like the idea of the cloud simply over rule number one, and there is no way in hell I'd point any type of authentication towards the cloud in hopes of maintaining security of the checkpoint.
And how do you know the binary code running on the server was generated using exactly the same open source code you have been provided with? IOW, the code could be modified without the customer knowing about privacy breaches. Don't be so naive when it comes to security.
You didn't notice the change in /. videos to HTML5? Really?
The paranoia's adorable, but here in the real world, everything I do is a balance between risk and reward.
Sure, our data could be sold off, but that's what contract lawyers are for, just like any other business deal. Sure, I risk a malevolent company holding my data hostage, but even at increased prices, it's still cheaper than handling the data myself. Sure, I could be using the same rack a terrorist uses, but he could also be renting office space in the same building we use.
My company could, of course, buy its own building, own its own servers, manage all of its own data, and run all of its own processing... and then promptly go bankrupt, because the cost to do that is too high for the extremely limited benefit.
You do not have a moral or legal right to do absolutely anything you want.
why do these videos start at 11 and have no visible volume control? My ears work fine thank you. I don't need max volume.