On 4/07/2020 1:21 pm, Mayuresh wrote:
On Fri, Jul 03, 2020 at 02:41:41PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
+1. Not to mention how insecure it is. I don't mind GMail for low
value stuff like personal emails. But corporations have no business
putting your data, like ssn, employment records and health records, in
these clouds. They are just storage provided by a third party. More
hands fingering the data...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman
I think Richard Stallman's article over-generalizes the term `cloud' and
writes it off.
It's also a 12 year old article and hope he refined his views.
Nowhere in that article do I see where the age of the article diminishes the
content.
Cloud computing is not safe. It relies on others to store your data, to which
you ultimately lose control over. It runs over the internet. The cloud provider
controls your access and your data. That's the gist of Stallman's argument. It
holds true in 2020 as it did in 2008.
As he says, using a web server to access your data is pfft, web server/company
disappears, so does your data.
It's a con designed by accounting & marketing shysters; the sheep just follow.
