On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:00 -0600, Modulok <modu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is it just me being paranoid, or is all this 'online' and 'live' aka > web-based applications and data storage like... the biggest security > threat in the Universe?
No. The biggest security threat is the human nature, participating in operating these facilities. > Not only from the perspective of the company > offering said services selling you out, but also in the fact that it > creates a high-value target (tons of data in one place) for the entire > world to try and exploit. Gaining information, especially those that have a certain worth (such as corporate data), is one important goal of criminals across the whole Internet. Offering opportunities, given by the fact that such "online live storage" clients and servers run MICROS~1 software (which is very well known for its high quality, haha), may turn such data silos into interesting targets. I'm sure that criminals have already found out about this fact, they're just waiting for more and more corporate "decision carriers" to adopt to all these modern techniques: "If we store our valueable data on those web servers, it will save us backup costs!" Maybe they're just waiting for some data to arrive where "conventional" espionage and sabotage would be too complicated. It's always nice when your victim delivers the loot willingly, isn't it? In fact, the situation you described isn't quite new. For many years now, data is stored on servers that are connected to the Internet, delivering certain services to the users. With the goal of decentralized computing, processing and working, the "in-house solution" seems to get less and less important. > Thoughts? Yes. :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"