Comment Re:maybe more secure (Score 1) 332
The risks are almost *exactly* the same except for one part. It is just a matter do you trust an external source to do it as good or better as you and be around for longer than you? Remember that external company is not beholden to you (like an employee) but to their owners. Remember they may go out of business before you.
I have to agree, and this is one of my problems with the cloud. Once a outside company has the data, who has the say on what happens to it if the company goes belly up. It opens up the potential for third parties to access the data. for corporations this really doesn't make sense especially when most have a data center and employees already.
for personal use I don't trust a third party with much of my data. I have my own backups and keep most of it in-house. With the new update to the Xbox 360 Microsoft just released there is now a cloud option for saving your game saves so you can play anywhere. something like this that has no "value" makes perfect sense to me to save in the cloud as who is really going to care that I'm 2/3rd of the way through call of duty and if I lose the save game so what. I can replay it as I have a disc with the game on it and I don't have to worry about a company turning off my ability to use it, selling the company, or going bankrupt.
For me this is the greatest argument against the cloud, You are at the mercy of the company running the cloud, if they decide to flip the switch one day and turn it off, due to any reason, your SOL. Depending on a third party to host data in todays day and age is not the best move, to many variables and potential downsides or ways to lose the data.