Top 5 Clever Uses for the Cloud

Posted by JD 01/15/2011 at 18:00

Stolen from my comment over at LH …

  1. Launch a Distributed Denial Of Service attack, DDoS
  2. Setup your own botnet
  3. Spread spyware
  4. Release huge password databases
  5. Release hacks for PS3s

Most of the time, Cloud Computing = Careless Computing.

Just because something is free and easy, doesn’t mean you should actually use it.

OTOH, there are times where using the Cloud makes perfect sense. When you want the widest distribution of data/info possible. In that case, remote, carefree computing is perfect.

When in doubt, don’t put it into the cloud because you can never get it back regardless of what the ToS say. IT security professionals are split on whether anything can be secured in the cloud. Certainly there are ways to accomplish it, but those methods are probably out of reach for individuals. I would have zero expectation of any real security on shared hosts or shared storage, but many people consider me paranoid. If it were your corporate data in the cloud, wouldn’t you want someone who is paranoid validating the security architecture?

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