RE: Into the Cloud (was RE: Missing Windows right-click key)

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity."

Even if Google, its employees, and the various subcontractors were all
just the nicest folks you ever met, that doesn't mean they'll never
screw up. Someone, somewhere, someday is going to accidentally publish
your stuff where you don't want it.

The Cloud is a wonderful place for my grocery list, but I wouldn't want
to put my company's IP there.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:40 PM
> To: Bill Swallow; Jimmy Breck-McKye
> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Into the Cloud (was RE: Missing Windows right-click key)
> 
> ... The reason is privacy and control. When Google or some other 
> provider is providing the servers and the tools, they have 
> our data - some of it sensitive and proprietary - in their 
> possession. They could poke and dissect it at their leisure, 
> sell to competitors, etc. 
> 
> Actually, Google and other big providers would not do so. 
> Their continued success rests on unsullied reputations. 
> However, they have employees - lots and lots of employees. 
> Many of those employees have great, big, swingin'... er...
> technical chops.  The point being that the organization 
> doesn't necessarily know that they've been infiltrated or 
> that people inside the organization have been subverted. ..
> 


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