Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

The cloud

https://youtu.be/CFdZWgiAj8I

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Good one! Fortunately, that's just a comedy sketch. We all know that the Cloud is perfectly secure. : )

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Loved the sketch.
Sure it is

Powder Hound

Yeah, sure. Like the cloud owners and/or admins are going to advertise it if they get hacked. Do they even know? I think not.

Cheers,

PH

bobmcculloch Loc: NYC, NY

Yeah!

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

We could only hope!

DragonsLady Loc: Los Alamos, NM

What about those cloud services that will encrypt your data? What if they lose the encryption key? Just wondering.

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

That was great. Thanks for sharing the link.

safeman

Should be required viewing for anyone considering cloud storage of anything.

Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az

Safe? until the government wants something. Remember phone security and they paid a hacker to break into phones so they can see what is in them for a criminal investigation; but I don't recall if the break in was worth (found any) evidence to use by them?

pendennis

The encryption keys are well safeguarded, and it's highly unlikely that a "cloud" company could ever lose those keys. While we look at redundancy, they look in terms of triple and quadruple redundancy, as well at outward facing servers, making them extremely difficult to hack.

The "cloud is nothing new". We used what would later be termed as cloud computing (AKA time sharing) in the late 70's and into the 80's on mainframe computers and terminals, well before Ethernet was developed. With primitive modems (by today's standards) and analog processing, we stored data remotely on mainframe computers, using applications housed on those mainframes, and storing data and applications on a variety of disc drives. Since the files were analog in nature, and communication was by modem, it was fairly easy to maintain security. Using a modem, users would dial in to the mainframe, but only gaining access when the sending telephone number was known to the system, and the mainframe modem making a call back to the requesting user.

However, as you can imagine, that method became obsolete very quickly with the advent of the personal computer and the need to talk to mainframes. Server technology was still primitive, and mainframes were still considered "de rigeur" for computing and storage. Emulating programs were used to make the necessary connections.

Sirsnapalot Loc: Hammond, Louisiana

Oh!