Link Sausage

[mdlbear]

Lots of tasty link sausage this morning:

For the cloud skeptics and former Sidekick (l)users, a good opinion piece:

Some argued with me last night that cloud computing is perfectly safe

Comments

[kyrielle]

Yeah, I started hearing how cool cloud computing apps were back when and I was like "no way would I trust someone else to solely hold my data!" A model where I have my data but it's also copied to the cloud, ala LiveMesh, might be worthwhile; I could access the mesh when not at home, and hopefully the changes make it back to my home machine, but at least the risk is only to whatever I did remotely, not the whole thing. But I've never felt that was worth it enough to bother either.

[mdlbear]

That, and I've never been willing to trust my most private data off of my home network without heavy encryption (which I've mostly been too lazy to put in place, but that's another matter).

[lisa_marli]

I love putting my Back Up on Mozy, but I would hate for everything to live up there