In a world where insecure high density exists, secure low density is at odds with cloud computing: the cloud makes sense only if you can efficiently utilize you

In a world where insecure high density exists, secure low density is at odds with cloud computing: the cloud makes sense only if you can efficiently utilize you computing power round the clock and make it cheaper than shipping mostly idle terminals. If securing the cloud is expensive, then there's a cutoff point where it's better to ship highly dense, cheap terminals. So maybe "screwed as a field" is not an exaggeration if the field is butt computing.