Comments on: Predicting 2010: Apple and the Cloud

By: M Fournier

M Fournier — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:25:59 +0000

Actually I am.
My computer is connected to the internet Only when I am using it and choose to connect to the internet. It is not a 24/7 connection.
Also my Mac and all my Networked Hard drives I use for backup are on my internal network not accessible from the internet.
My mac does not have a assigned external IP. All my home computers are behind a firewall that limits what connections can be made.
So Even if you did attempt to connect to my home mac during the time I am online you would then find no data in my shared storage of any value. then you would then need to hack to my unshared storage get through the encryption on my secured Hard drives and all before I cut the connection.
The next time I connect I get a new IP address so you would need to find my IP connect to my router hack through the firewall and then discover my Mac’s new IP and then hack through the encryption all over again.

If I am stupid enough to let you trick me into downloading a Trojan horse that would keep my connection live or give you root access then you might have half a chance to get at my data but that is a HUGE If. And also since I monitor traffic on my network and through my firewall If any application attempts to make a connection to the internet I know about it.

And then on top of all that there is the most secure data. ALL my truly sensitive data like tax information Social security information is stored on OFF LINE.
On USB drives that are only connected to my mac when I need it. and they are encrypted drives so if you broke in and took them you would get nothing off them unless you know the secured password.
Then also the value of my data alone is worth way less the the trouble it takes to get it.
But if it was stored along with millions of otter peoples data in one location the effort becomes with the trouble.

So please tell me how Google is more secure then a home PC again?

Truth is though that greater and greater amounts of data about us, our banking our health records, our credit record and even personal information about our shopping habits and what you are reading online is created and kept by others on servers we do not control already. And it is all out there connected to the internet 24/7. So really anyone worried about their data being hacked due to cloud computing. I hate to tell you it is TO LATE your data is already out there. And you had no choice someone else has already put it online without you even knowing they did it. Most of it is harder to get at then it is worth on its own but collectively it is a huge target. That is why So much effort goes in to corporate network security.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:54:34 +0000

If you store your data on any device connected to the internet then your data is just as accessible as data stored in the cloud. What you are suggesting is that you are better at securing your hard drive than Google is at securing their servers.

Probability: Absurd

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By: iMarodeur

iMarodeur — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:02:07 +0000

What I hope for: Apple is fixing all the little things that are missing to make MobileMe a Killer, merge it with iWork, add your own little iTunes Database for Streaming and so on….

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:30:33 +0000

I’m a MobileMe fan for LIFE!

Find My iPhone helped me find my phone and my car when they were both stolen from a parking lot… best $99 I ever spent.

By: rebelatheart

rebelatheart — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:13:30 +0000

Cloud computing is high risk, since you will depend on an internet connecting, and who is to say you will always be able to have one? Not even considering the fact that not everyone has a high speed connection. More dangerously I think, is having content in the hands of a third party. No matter what their privacy policies may claim, when it comes down to it, your content may not be as private as you think.
Google, the company this website keeps promoting, is one of these companies prone on getting your content on their servers. Nothing good can come from having content from millions of users in one place. Personally, I don’t even trust Google with a cookie.

By: iHing

iHing — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 06:35:37 +0000

MobileMe’s webmail is a slug and I wrote a complaint to Apple to fix it. Let’s see if they do. However, I still find it useful as I sync not only my mail, contacts and ical events but also my Safari bookmarks, dashboard widgets, dock items and other mail account setting across my Macs and iPhone. I also use the photo gallery a lot and can publish photos directly from iPhoto.

Apple please just fix the webmail and drop your price even with the family pack of 5 users. I just posted a post “Why MobileMe?” on my blog.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:26:38 +0000

Steve Jobs as Skynet? You think that’s a *small* probability?!

By: Michael Tomlin

Michael Tomlin — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:10:10 +0000

To each his own I guess, but MobileMe is well worth the money to me.

For $8 a month, I get e-mail, syncing between all my Macs and my iPhone and knowing if I misplace my iPhone, I’ll be able to track its location, and then lock it or wipe it if needed.

…And syncing your entire Home folder? Where do you live, because I want your Internet connection. My upstream bandwidth is 384kbps, do you know how long it takes to upload a gigabyte of data at that speed? Divide 1,000,000 by 48 and that’s how many seconds it will take, and that’s if it hits the maximum rate. That comes to almost 6 hours for each GB. My Photos folder alone would take an entire day to upload!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:36:04 +0000

They aren’t building the billion (with a “B”) server farm for nothing :)