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Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:34:28 +0000

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By: Dianne

Dianne — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:40:36 +0000

I guess in this universe of giving away privacy to Facebook and Google, it seems fine to people to put their information into a vulnerable cloud where protection against hacking is dubious at best. Google has admitted that it uses its online services to skim off information for advertisers….and Twitter and Facebook are right there to scoop up and sell data. What else could they access in the cloud that perhaps we don’t want skimmed? We rush to jump into the cloud, but there’s a lot falling through. I don’t believe anything on the Internet has any privacy at all, very limited security, and only fools think there is. We’ve seen proof enough of “oops, we shared everyone’s emails by mistake,” “oops, we allowed hackers into getting credit card information,” and “oops, someone accessed our security documents.” How many “oops” does it take for us to wake up to how vulnerable the cloud of information is?

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By: Tweets that mention Cloud computing report from Pew | Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton-Jan -- Topsy.com

By: Dianne