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People fear of losing control of their data, as simple as that. On your own computer you will fear only of a hardware failure or a nasty virus. On the cloud ..
by octopus 16y ago
People fear of losing control of their data, as simple as that. On your own computer you will fear only of a hardware failure or a nasty virus.
On the cloud ... well you are at the mercy of a provider, of a Government or of any organization that can stop you access your own data.
(Personally I use Dropbox for storing some software projects.)
- hoag 16y agoI agree with you that many people have this fear. But it's a logically inconsistent fear: (1) As I mentioned, inability to access the cloud with Dropbox and like services -- or government/organizational intervention thereof -- does not impede your access to your data: all synced devices have separate, local instances of the data that are as up-to-date as the last time such device was online. (2) In any event, how is storing data "in the cloud" any different to storing email? It's all "up there" too. I don't see the distinction. My email is "online" and my cloud-stored data is online. What's the difference? And one could argue that email is -- at times, at least -- even more sensitive than actual data. (3) To fear "only ... a hardware failure or a nasty virus" is shortsighted: failure to maintain multiple instances of data, both on- and off-line alike, is far more risky indeed.