Cloud Computing is Careless Computing

Posted by JD 01/14/2011 at 06:00

I was listening to a Linux Outlaws podcast where I heard a quote from Mr. Richard Stallman that caught me as true. I looked up the real quote.

“I suppose many people will continue moving towards careless computing, because there’s a sucker born every minute. The US government may try to encourage people to place their data where the US government can seize it without showing them a search warrant, rather than in their own property. However, as long as enough of us continue keeping our data under our own control, we can still do so. And we had better do so, or the option may disappear.” Here’s the source link.

Careless Computing. Your data is stored someplace else and no longer under your control. A good, clear, and accurate term.

There are good uses of Cloud Computing, but not without lots of very careful thought.

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