Activist Post: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing (w/Infographic)

Activist Post: The Dark Side of Cloud Computing (w/Infographic)

The revelations about NSA and its Five Eyes Alliance
continue to mount, while a series of high-profile data attacks have
compromised the information of hundreds of millions of customers of the
planet's largest companies. Just today, Apple is in the news after an epic security flaw was revealed to have gone undetected for 18 months. It's one among many.



Despite assurances with each new tech release that the current security
is impenetrable, it is instead shown to be populated with surveillance
backdoors, and riddled with holes that average hackers can easily
exploit.



Co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, has gone on record
to state that Cloud storage is also compromised. Cloud storage has been
sold as a secure way to back up your information online, so as not to
fall prey to the inevitable failure of directly connected devices such
as a local hard drive. It is also a convenient way to store data where
access is available anywhere you travel. The Cloud storage boom has not
only been in the consumer realm. As you will see in the Infographic
below sourced from leading tech sites, Cloud storage is now the dominant
choice for the world's largest businesses. The graphic examines the
history of Cloud storage, the outages, and other areas that highlight
the darker side of this method of storage which need to be considered in
our era of bigger and bigger Big Data.