Comments on: “Cloud Computing is bad for you”… http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/ Media, Tech & Business Models Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:25:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Catching the Cloud | My Blog http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-19236 Catching the Cloud | My Blog Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:57:27 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-19236 [...] “Cloud Computing is bad for you”… So says Richard Stallman the father of the Free Software Foundation. He makes a simple argument: By using Cloud Computing applications you surrender your life (data) to some big company you can’t trust.  You’re no longer in control.  Conversely, if you keep everything on your (Linux) desktop, you’re the master of your own destiny. . [...]… [...] [...] “Cloud Computing is bad for you”… So says Richard Stallman the father of the Free Software Foundation. He makes a simple argument: By using Cloud Computing applications you surrender your life (data) to some big company you can’t trust.  You’re no longer in control.  Conversely, if you keep everything on your (Linux) desktop, you’re the master of your own destiny. . [...]… [...]

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]]> By: roger tomson http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-14932 roger tomson Fri, 13 May 2011 00:21:45 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-14932 As i indulge in the online market place log theme! As i indulge in the online market place log theme!

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]]> By: Greta http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-9143 Greta Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:18:07 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-9143 How intersting to finally find a place were Cloud Computing is being criticised not by it's technical flaws, but by the cultural tendency is promoting. Things like how the low computing requirements of people make the Cloud possible, how we expose ourselves to advertisment in order to get "free" storage and how we are fooled when standardized scrapsare delivered to individual users, complement the views of Stallman, and are exposed on a recent independent editorial. Check it out! http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/index.php?text=view&tipo=&bot=&id_articulo=5418&idioma=en Greets! How intersting to finally find a place were Cloud Computing is being criticised not by it’s technical flaws, but by the cultural tendency is promoting. Things like how the low computing requirements of people make the Cloud possible, how we expose ourselves to advertisment in order to get “free” storage and how we are fooled when standardized scrapsare delivered to individual users, complement the views of Stallman, and are exposed on a recent independent editorial. Check it out! http://www.riorevuelto.org/site/index.php?text=view&tipo=&bot=&id_articulo=5418&idioma=en

Greets!

]]> By: Riffa http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-976 Riffa Sun, 26 Jul 2009 11:16:11 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-976 I wrote this in response to a Google Chrome OS article. Just replace the word Google with your favorite company. I am posting this writing to every site I can find concerning cloud computing. ======================= This is a technological trap to the nth degree. I see a endless myriad of problems with cloud computing that benefit nothing to anybody except hosts, hackers, terrorist, and the government. If you like the idea of cloud computing, then you like the idea of all your personal work and data in the hands of every google tech and even the company receptionist. Ones argument for cloud computing must be.. why worry about losing my work and identity, when I can just give it away. That copyright or patent request ain't gonna do ya much good after some enterprising google employee notices your million dollar idea and decides he'd rather not work for a living anymore cause it is now his million dollar idea and he has the patent to prove it. My data is on my system. For you to get it means you have to get past my firewall, install your malware, get past my encryptions, and hope I don't catch your program reporting back to you. Even then you only have access to what your malware is programmed to access. For you to get *ALL* my data in a cloud, all you have to do is hack my password. Duhhh. Also, if you like the idea of cloud computing, then you also like idea of working slower and slower. IP's are complaining that a small percentage of file sharers are hogging the majority of their bandwidth. Whats gonna happen when EVERYBODY becomes a 'file sharer' with every file they have? You also realize the video streamers are just getting started dontcha? And as it's been pointed out, what's going to happen when there's a outage? Your new high tech 'dumb terminal' is going to need a host ya know. And screw hacking your little pc. Hackers are gonna hack EVERYBODY in one shot! And what about that disgruntled google employee? Terrorists are now drooling at the prospect that we are consolidating all our resources into one handy target. In this age of identity theft, I CANNOT believe that somebody would trust ANY their info to be in one place (accept their home). Even a TRUSTED place (cause there is no such thing). Its unfathomable! What OS and processors do you think goggles runnin right now? Would that be the easily hackable combination of Windows on Intel? Just one hacker access into a major hosts password file and cloud computing will be gone forever. Along with that company. It WILL happen. Cloud computing will prove itself to be a 'company ender' and these companies are racing to beat each other to that end. Which they FULLY DESERVE for trying to pull such a stunt. Cloud computing has got to be the most irresponsable concepts ever put forth by ANY industry. It is a gigantic backwards step in the evolution of information security at a time when information security is almost non-existent. It is a inherently flawed concept that benefits NOBODY but hackers, terrorist, the government, and hosting companies (till they get hacked that is). Cloud computing will only be used by two groups of people.. people who believe tabloids, and full blown certifiable idiots. I wrote this in response to a Google Chrome OS article. Just replace the word Google with your favorite company. I am posting this writing to every site I can find concerning cloud computing.
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This is a technological trap to the nth degree. I see a endless myriad of problems with cloud computing that benefit nothing to anybody except hosts, hackers, terrorist, and the government. If you like the idea of cloud computing, then you like the idea of all your personal work and data in the hands of every google tech and even the company receptionist. Ones argument for cloud computing must be.. why worry about losing my work and identity, when I can just give it away. That copyright or patent request ain’t gonna do ya much good after some enterprising google employee notices your million dollar idea and decides he’d rather not work for a living anymore cause it is now his million dollar idea and he has the patent to prove it. My data is on my system. For you to get it means you have to get past my firewall, install your malware, get past my encryptions, and hope I don’t catch your program reporting back to you. Even then you only have access to what your malware is programmed to access. For you to get *ALL* my data in a cloud, all you have to do is hack my password. Duhhh. Also, if you like the idea of cloud computing, then you also like idea of working slower and slower. IP’s are complaining that a small percentage of file sharers are hogging the majority of their bandwidth. Whats gonna happen when EVERYBODY becomes a ‘file sharer’ with every file they have? You also realize the video streamers are just getting started dontcha? And as it’s been pointed out, what’s going to happen when there’s a outage? Your new high tech ‘dumb terminal’ is going to need a host ya know. And screw hacking your little pc. Hackers are gonna hack EVERYBODY in one shot! And what about that disgruntled google employee? Terrorists are now drooling at the prospect that we are consolidating all our resources into one handy target. In this age of identity theft, I CANNOT believe that somebody would trust ANY their info to be in one place (accept their home). Even a TRUSTED place (cause there is no such thing). Its unfathomable! What OS and processors do you think goggles runnin right now? Would that be the easily hackable combination of Windows on Intel? Just one hacker access into a major hosts password file and cloud computing will be gone forever. Along with that company. It WILL happen. Cloud computing will prove itself to be a ‘company ender’ and these companies are racing to beat each other to that end. Which they FULLY DESERVE for trying to pull such a stunt. Cloud computing has got to be the most irresponsable concepts ever put forth by ANY industry. It is a gigantic backwards step in the evolution of information security at a time when information security is almost non-existent. It is a inherently flawed concept that benefits NOBODY but hackers, terrorist, the government, and hosting companies (till they get hacked that is). Cloud computing will only be used by two groups of people.. people who believe tabloids, and full blown certifiable idiots.

]]> By: illumin8 http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-656 illumin8 Sun, 17 May 2009 10:36:42 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-656 Mr. Stallman did not go to far. And there is a difference between being opinionated and being a visionary. His counter cultural ideas have produced things like all of the Linux OS's, creative commons, shareware, firefox, open media formats, etc. It is amazing to me that people still do not get that it is free as in speech not free as in beer. More accurate investigative reporting would show that Richard Stallman does not believe all software should be free, but OPEN. Common knowledge produces exponetial innovation and the market begins to be driven by innovation rather that manipulation and control. The current cloud computing trend is engineered and promoted by large profit based organizations. It is not opinion to say that you will be at the mercy of what ever company provides you with a cloud service. If you are not installing a program, but rather choosing a service, you are now just a consumer. It is plain fact. I am amazed at how readily we jump on popularity band-wagons at the expense of basic logic. Mr. Stallman did not go to far.
And there is a difference between being opinionated and being a visionary.
His counter cultural ideas have produced things like all of the Linux OS’s, creative commons, shareware, firefox, open media formats, etc.
It is amazing to me that people still do not get that it is free as in speech not free as in beer. More accurate investigative reporting would show that Richard Stallman does not believe all software should be free, but OPEN.
Common knowledge produces exponetial innovation and the market begins to be driven by innovation rather that manipulation and control.
The current cloud computing trend is engineered and promoted by large profit based organizations. It is not opinion to say that you will be at the mercy of what ever company provides you with a cloud service. If you are not installing a program, but rather choosing a service, you are now just a consumer. It is plain fact. I am amazed at how readily we jump on popularity band-wagons at the expense of basic logic.

]]> By: Islam Abou El Ata http://www.mondaynote.com/2008/10/12/cloud-computing-is-bad-for-you/#comment-598 Islam Abou El Ata Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:37:17 +0000 http://www.mondaynote.com/?p=981#comment-598 Mr Stallman probably went a bit too far on this point, but I think I can give an idea about how I think he thought about it: For RMS, software is either free (good) or proprietary (evil), (and I can agree with that to an extent ..) BUT: What category does cloud computing software fit it? 1 - Freedom of use is not granted (terms of use) 2 - Freedom to study the source (or I'd rather say to do security audit on it) is unavailable. 3 - Freedom to share the software with others is unavailable unless your friends buy/rent the service too. This actually shows how bad can cloud computing be as far as freedom (and thus RMS) is concerned, and that is why I think RMS is that much against it. Mr Stallman probably went a bit too far on this point, but I think I can give an idea about how I think he thought about it:
For RMS, software is either free (good) or proprietary (evil), (and I can agree with that to an extent ..) BUT: What category does cloud computing software fit it?
1 – Freedom of use is not granted (terms of use)
2 – Freedom to study the source (or I’d rather say to do security audit on it) is unavailable.
3 – Freedom to share the software with others is unavailable unless your friends buy/rent the service too.

This actually shows how bad can cloud computing be as far as freedom (and thus RMS) is concerned, and that is why I think RMS is that much against it.

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