On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:17 AM, William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/06/2012 12:05 AM, David Mann wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 2012, at 2:38 PM, William Robb wrote: >> >>> IIRC, recently there was a cloud storage company in the USA that got >>> shut down by the feds because some of their members were storing data they >>> didn't own. >> >> >> Not sure who exactly you're talking about but Mega Upload was shut down >> by the FBI, courtesy of the NZ Police. It's been a complete farce and the >> extradition of Kim Dotcom is slowly grinding its way through the courts. >> It's sounding less likely to succeed as time goes by. >> >> Not that Mr Dotcom is squeaky clean himself... but I think the balance of >> public opinion is on his side. >> > > > The why it was shut down is immaterial to the discussion. The point is, it > was shut down, and anyone who had data stored on his server either lost > their data or were very inconvenienced. > Anyone who is depending on cloud storage should be looking at this as the > potential end result of all their carefully uploaded data.
Calling Megaupload a "cloud storage company" is like calling the Mafia a "global security firm". Nobody legit had anything stored there. It was/is for warez, swiped movies and music, etc. Now if the FBI shutdown DropBox or Amazon I'd be interested. The notion that one of these legit cloud services would be shutdown because of a court order is dubious and of an extremely low order of risk. A much higher risk is that Amazon would suffer from a catastrophic single-point-of-failure accident and you temporarily lose access to your data. This has happened, also to Google (the Google App Engine). Poorly designed or implemented network architecture is the risk to concern yourself with. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
