Archive for Cloud computing
Cloud computing: Wikileaks and Amazon highlight the dangers
Up until a couple of days ago Wikileaks was hosting its latest batch of sensitive information on Amazon’s for-rent servers. Anyone can rent space on these servers to store their information. Until, it seems, Amazon comes under some pressure, combs through its terms of service, and finds a reason to boot you. In the case [...]
Coming down from the clouds
Everyone has a bad day some time; and when that bad day is happening to a cloud service provider it could be disastrous for you. The internet is so quick these days it’s easy to forget how many services we use that are far outside our control. For some of us it’s like the lights [...]