Doug Miller wrote:
John McCoy wrote in
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Bill wrote in news:m7qkvq02293
@news6.newsguy.com:

I know some people are using the cloud. I'm not sure whether they
are smarter than me or not.

I do not trust the cloud for that purpose - too many pieces in
the line (servers, network, etc) which might fail at an inconvenient
time. To me the cloud is for collaboration - stuff I want other
people to have access to - not backup storage.

Although that's an important reason for distrusting the cloud, IMHO
there's an even more important one: security. I certainly wouldn't
store tax returns or banking records on the cloud.

That's my biggest reason for not using cloud based storage. Between the
ongoing issues with credit card fraud (in a system that is inherently more
secure than your typical hosted storage provider), and what we are already
seeing now with cloud storage being hacked, I'm not good at all with
trusting my information to a provider out there somewhere. Security is a
joke and people are becoming too trusing of providers who "assure" the
integrity of their security.

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-Mike-