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- angel.wardriver, on 10/07/2009, -0/+7"Clobbering the Cloud" and "Spying on BlackBerry Users for Fun" sound like fun mischief for security conferences.
- bullox, on 10/07/2009, -0/+6The news is hackers will hack.
Also, fish in the ocean. More at 11. - knopper92, on 10/07/2009, -0/+4"Crackers Plan to Clobber the Cloud, Spy on Blackberries"'
Dext time don't confuse the two. - gummbi1, on 10/07/2009, -0/+4Dugg for Hack In The Box (HITB)
- chokoboii, on 10/07/2009, -0/+4Larry Ellison will be happy to hear this
- tnoy, on 10/07/2009, -0/+4There is obviously nothing to worry about. Most of these cloud services are built upon Linux and Unix, which is very secure and impossible for hackers to get in.
/s - saswannabe17, on 10/07/2009, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-d8-t3W6Ac#t=1m38s
thoughts on killing the cloud - JohnnySoftware, on 10/11/2009, -0/+1ROFLMAO
In a news story that indicates the opposite, T-Mobile has shut down sales of T-Mobile phones and informed the public that it lost its customers' data.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic ...
They entrusted their customer's data to Microsoft, who owns a data storage company portentously named Danger. Reportedly Microsoft's Danger company lost - not temporarily misplaced, lost - T-Mobile customer's data.
T-Mobile is advising its customers NOT TO TURN THEIR PHONES OFF.
So apparently, if you own a Blackberry device and pay for their service, or pay a Microsoft company like Danger to store your data for you - then your data is safer on a device than up on a cloud.
According to the Washington Post article, workers at the Microsoft's company failed to make a backup before upgrading a RAID storage array. Apparently something went awry with the array and the data went away.
You are generalizing. Generalizations can be wildly wrong, as is the case this time. Rather than generalizing and making a lot of indirect assumptions and drawing inferences, stick to fundamentals. Backups are good. Human error happens. Take precautions.
That was not done in this case. T-Mobile handed their data off to Microsoft's company, the company stuck the data in their system, and the data got lost in the clouds. - dustinspringman, on 10/12/2009, -0/+1You are arguing apples and... volkswagons..
two things:
1.) microsoft fails at most everything, how can you expect them to not fail at hosting a cloud... (this is by far the most epic failure by t-mobile to begin with)
2.) google is NOT microsoft.. they'd at least have a way to restore a backup... Oh, but that makes sense!? Something M$ has a problem with..
From my experience, you couldn't pay me to let M$ host any of my data.. That is like giving the guys at Jackass a goat and a tricycle.. Something bad is bound to happen..
Are you seriously comparing Microsoft hosted servers to Google? Really? Srsly???
Let me try to explain this for those that are new to this..
Microsoft = poorly designed software that crashes ALL the time and should not be considered a "cloud", ever..
Google = doing things right for over a decade.. I've got 18,000+ emails in my gmail account and have never lost a single message in 5 1/2 years of use.. Also, 99.9% availability is something Microsoft argues is not possible? For them maybe, but it does exist in "quality" programming and engineering...
Compare that... Try... Go ahead! =P - dustinspringman, on 10/07/2009, -0/+1Although this is probably meant to strike fear in to those that are not "in the know", if you look at if from the perspective of WHY CLOUD COMPUTING IS SO SUCCESSFUL, then you will clearly see that consolidating into datacenters is FAR MORE SECURE than the ACME company that runs their entire system on Windows 2000 server and has never updated the thing... (Oh, and there are millions of them out there).. Putting your data in the hands of someone that is responsible and TRULY understands security like IBM, Google, or others is probably a much better idea versus some half-witted IT admin leaving his box open to be raped by the same hackers that this post is "threatening will attack the cloud"... Hell, maybe if some of these jerks start trying to crack google servers someone might actually be prosecuted for it.. Think about it.. Although they are trying to scare people in this post, they are only proving the point that cloud computing is a better idea even from a security perspective.. It needs some improvement to ensure users that their data is safe, but I have enjoyed the cloud for nearly a decade now and I WILL NEVER GO BACK! =D
- NeoNevermore, on 10/07/2009, -1/+11. Cut a hole in the box
- inactive, on 10/07/2009, -4/+3Reason number 5238 why cloud computing will NOT take off as much as Google thinks.
- SenorCloud, on 10/07/2009, -2/+0The cloud is the future. Accept it. And please accept that I am the most interesting cloud in the world. Check out the video that OpSource commisioned me to make: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8e2187c1be/opsour ...
