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See, I use the "There is no cloud, only another person's computer" comment as a lesson to both my students and less tech-savvy friends - for privacy reasons. I
by Endy 8y ago
See, I use the "There is no cloud, only another person's computer" comment as a lesson to both my students and less tech-savvy friends - for privacy reasons. It may be an incredibly powerful computer, but the core issue is, it's someone else's. You can't control what they do with it, and you certainly shouldn't trust them to have your best interest in mind. I don't care what buzzword you use. If data is stored remotely, it's not secure because the one storing & hosting it can choose to see it.
Good way to teach kids how to be properly paranoid on the Internet and the Web.
- manquer 8y agoIt is also someone else's OS, software and hardware and compiler (Thompson,'84) even if you "own" the specific license or a copy . Physical "ownership" is very arbitrary line to draw i if you are paranoid about this kind of thing , Storage does not equate able to see if you control the encryption keys
- Endy 8y agoIt is, and I wish I was capable of having it otherwise. I merely lack the necessary skills and equipment. There's a much lower skill hurdle to setting up your own server than there is to writing your own OS from binary up.