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Unfortuately not everybody has the forsight that you suggest, resulting in increased dependency for data control, I worry about the integrety of those holding all this info. There is a reason why Banks don't use the internet and storage for internal operation.
I agree with you that it is a convenience and note how this could seduce folk into dependancy.
10-17-11 04:33 AM - I agree that the inovation in the technical ability of our new devises has huge benifits, I am however referring to psychological dependency on cloud technology, not that it is a bad thing used sensibly, but more that it will be the only method for many services and will become mandatory by default.
Lets also not forget the effect on our eco system of some of the assumed innovative cost cutting products in development. BTW I like progress but not at any cost.
10-17-11 07:23 AM - Right, I don't like to remotely store files, if I want to share them then yeah I'll put them on Photobucket or Dropbox but otherwise no I'll keep them locally on my PC or laptop or device. But cloud storage is the future, pretty soon we'll be accessing EVERYTHING via a remote location, which is a hacker's wet dream.No they don't, you are wrong in my opinion. I can never understand why folk want to store their data this way, I feel a good hack coming on.
10-17-11 07:45 AM - I just read this on the net.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/world-facin...095708609.html
""Criminals use these to harvest passwords and other sensitive data from smartphones or computers - often giving their Wi-Fi hotspots fake names familiar to punters at cafes and in airports.
Many smartphones are set up to automatically leap on to available Wi-Fi hotspots and start downloading emails.
Others will ask first. But who would turn down "free Wi-Fi"?
Mr Hart has set up his fake Wi-Fi hotspot in a car outside a cafe.
My phone picked it up and I chose to jump on his Wi-Fi link. In seconds, he was able to read my email passwords and decrypt my "secure" login details for Twitter.
He already knew my IP address, the unique address for my iPhone. So he was "spear phishing" me, aiming only to harvest my data.
"With the right equipment I could do this in a two or three mile radius... I conducted an attack against you and pretty much everything you were doing on your smart phone, I was able to essentially compromise all your passwords," Mr Hart explained.
Forty per cent of mobiles sold this year have been smartphones - and this has been a bumper year for malware developers who have focussed their attention on smartphones.
Those running Google's Android system have been especially targeted.
Bitdefender's Catalin Cosoi said: "We have investigated applications for Android devices and basically, based on our statistics, we've seen a 2,000% increase of malicious applications compared to the last year... Our prediction is that in the following six months, we will have a 6,000% increase in malicious applications."
"Once you have a smartphone, you probably can't go back to an older version of a phone now that you have access to a computer, social media, emails, pictures and so on. You sort of get addicted, so smartphones are becoming very important," Mr Cosoi added.""
This is not the whole read, see above link.
Will folk wake up???? It's happening (but it won't happen to me
)10-17-11 09:32 AM - I guess I was just thinking about a paper copy, origin "tree". I was wondering, what would happen to all the sustainablely grown trees when we don't need paper. Wood (excuse the pun) they all be cut down and then they woodn't absorb co2 to give us o2 which wood increase greenhouse gasses and warm the planet so we all drowned, and all because of a cloud. therefore cloud = wet = drowning
Just a bit of fun
10-17-11 10:35 AM - Oh! Well we'd cut 'em down to make more Walmarts of course!I guess I was just thinking about a paper copy, origin "tree". I was wondering, what would happen to all the sustainablely grown trees when we don't need paper. Wood (excuse the pun) they all be cut down and then they woodn't absorb co2 to give us o2 which wood increase greenhouse gasses and warm the planet so we all drowned, and all because of a cloud. therefore cloud = wet = drowning
Just a bit of fun10-17-11 11:06 AM - Android OS older than 2.3.4 tramsits sensitive data over wifi in clear text, kind of iffy because I travel alot and I connected to airport wifi with my Desire often. Lots of people on the Android forums said "I'm not worried" when this hit the news.I just read this on the net.
World Is Facing A Wave Of Cyber Crime - Yahoo!
""Criminals use these to harvest passwords and other sensitive data from smartphones or computers - often giving their Wi-Fi hotspots fake names familiar to punters at cafes and in airports.
Many smartphones are set up to automatically leap on to available Wi-Fi hotspots and start downloading emails.
Others will ask first. But who would turn down "free Wi-Fi"?
Mr Hart has set up his fake Wi-Fi hotspot in a car outside a cafe.
My phone picked it up and I chose to jump on his Wi-Fi link. In seconds, he was able to read my email passwords and decrypt my "secure" login details for Twitter.
He already knew my IP address, the unique address for my iPhone. So he was "spear phishing" me, aiming only to harvest my data.
"With the right equipment I could do this in a two or three mile radius... I conducted an attack against you and pretty much everything you were doing on your smart phone, I was able to essentially compromise all your passwords," Mr Hart explained.
Forty per cent of mobiles sold this year have been smartphones - and this has been a bumper year for malware developers who have focussed their attention on smartphones.
Those running Google's Android system have been especially targeted.
Bitdefender's Catalin Cosoi said: "We have investigated applications for Android devices and basically, based on our statistics, we've seen a 2,000% increase of malicious applications compared to the last year... Our prediction is that in the following six months, we will have a 6,000% increase in malicious applications."
"Once you have a smartphone, you probably can't go back to an older version of a phone now that you have access to a computer, social media, emails, pictures and so on. You sort of get addicted, so smartphones are becoming very important," Mr Cosoi added.""
This is not the whole read, see above link.
Will folk wake up???? It's happening (but it won't happen to me)
There was some hijacking of wireless debit/credit card machines at pubs and resteraunts some years ago, I think they have better encryption now.10-17-11 04:28 PM
