Indeed... It's a concern I continue to have, even as I advocate the technology for its technical merits.
*ASB *(My Bio via About.Me <http://about.me/Andrew.S.Baker/bio>) *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Raper, Jonathan - Eagle < [email protected]> wrote: > Thought provoking, if nothing else. > > Thanks for sharing, Angus. > > Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE > Technology Coordinator > Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA > [email protected] > www.eaglemds.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:44 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: domain controller in the cloud??? > > On 10 Jan 2011 at 11:43, techconnect wrote: > > > We are a private k-8 school and we have a board member who is telling us > > that we should not buy any new servers to replace the current ones, he > says > > everything is moving to the cloud and so should our stuff(user folders, > > authenication AD win 2003 R2 and Exchange 2003 is what we're using, they > > want to move to gmail but there's no central management there I know > of,and > > offsite backups only.) We have about 350-400 students and faculty and > they > > want to be on the bandwagon to the cloud I think without understanding > > everything about it(I'm not entirely clear either) and was looking for > > thoughts and opinions or resources. > > Interesting take on this idea here: > > ============= Included Stuff Follows ============= > Why I´m Having Second Thoughts About The Wisdom Of The Cloud > > "...It used to be that if the US government wanted access to documents > or > letters in my possession they´d have to subpoena me directly. As a > foreign > citizen there are all sorts of ways I could fight the request - and it > was > at least my choice whether to do so. As someone living in the US I also > had the whole weight of the 4th Amendment on my side. Now, with > everything > in the cloud, the decision whether to hand over my personal information > is > almost entirely out of my hands. And unless, as happened with Twitter, > the > company storing my data decides to fight for openness on my behalf, > there´s every possibility that I won´t even hear about the request until > it´s too late. That´s just not how things should work in a free society. > > "Of course, it remains statistically unlikely that I´m going to be the > subject of a subpoena any time soon. I´m hardly an enemy of the state. > But > then again, until recently, neither were many of the supporters of > Wikileaks. Who´s to say that an innocuous organisation I give support to > today won´t suddenly become highly controversial tomorrow? > > "For that reason, I´m giving serious thought to the idea of taking my > communications back out of the cloud: switching back to a traditional > email client and storing my documents on my encrypted hard-drive." > > ============= Included Stuff Ends ============= > Seen here: > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/10/why-im-having-second-thoughts-about-the-wisdom-of-the-cloud/ > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-290-5038 > Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
