Penetrating the Cloud
What’s the difference between “cloud computing” and “networking”?
In the immortal word of Yoghurt in the classic movie, Space Balls,
Bruce Schneir writes in the Guardian:
And it is nothing new.
I have my own little cloud.
Now, am I going to put personal documents out on, for example, Google Docs? No. I’m going to back them up to my server (and, for real important stuff, removable media, such as a DVD), because, well, stuff breaks. I would unhesitatingly use Google Docs for the collaborative aspects of it if I needed to, but why go there when I have OpenOffice.
I don’t even trust my cloud all that much, because, well, stuff breaks. I’m sure as shootin’ ain’t gonna trust any one else’s cloud.