For reals, though, this article about a church deacon who was busted by Verizon for storing child pornography in the cloud brings up an important addendum to the earlier post about cloud storage. Namely, that perhaps there are things it would be unwise to keep there.
(Of course, you can't keep child pornography anywhere because it is ILLEGAL. Just so we're clear.)
I'm admit that I do not know how safe your data is out in the cloud. I've been looking at some of the reader comments on this article and many people pointed out that it is worrisome to think that Verizon could be looking at your personal stuff. But it is also pretty unlikely that individual eyeballs would be sifting through your files -- needle in a haystack anyone? -- I'm guessing there is some sort of algorithm in play for targeting known illegal image files.
The conclusion folks seemed to draw was: if it's way personal, don't keep it online. Or else learn encryption. I would love to write a post about that if anyone wants to chime in with zee knowledge.
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In my hunt for WTT topics, I have enjoyed visiting websites that I never looked at before; I hope y'all give them a try too. The comments on the ars technica article mentioned above seem to come from smart people who are thinking through the ramifications and solutions to the issue of privacy vs. criminal activity on the Net, and I found them very interesting.
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