Putting everything in the cloud, from personal data to private documents, is now a mainstream hype. A sure sign is the recent article in the German news magazine SPIEGEL online titled “Packen Sie Ihren Krempel in die Wolke! (“Put your stuff in the cloud“).
I’m not sure whether this is a contrarian indicator like in the stock market bubbles when taxi drivers provide you with free stock recommendations…
At least it is a funny coincidence that the SPIEGEL recommends a service like Dropbox, while at the same time the renowned IT magazine Heise online reports security holes in the Dropbox client discovered by security expert Derek Newton.
But why should you worry? The SPIEGEL is relaxed:
“Wer Angst hat, dass andere mitlesen, für den ist die Web-Wolke nichts. Wer Hunderte Megabytes Daten auf diversen Servern auf der ganzen Welt speichert, muss eine gewisse Wurstigkeit an den Tag legen. Denn ganz sicher lesen da welche mit.”
(engl: “In case you are afraid about other people reading your data, the cloud is not for you. If you store hundreds of Megabyte of data on a variety of servers around the world, you need some kind of “I don’t care” attitude. Because it is for sure that there are other people reading your data.” – Translation by the author).
Now this is a twist! Just put everything in the cloud – privacy and security is soo last century. Don’t worry, be happy!
I don’t know about you – but this approach makes me speechless. (more…)
