Jonathan Craven

Jonathan Craven's Blog I don't trust Amazon S3 with my personal data. It's not a question of trusting Amazon to abide by the terms of service - I do trust them as a company, but no company can be immune from a rogue employee or corporate espionage, and it is not easy to trust their security procedures unless you can audit them yourself at whim, which is a practical impossibility. I have already written about how I have enthusiastically adopted Amazon S3 as a solution for off-site backups, and for publishing heavier content than my home server could handle, such as video. The other day one of the hosts of Buzz Out Loud mentioned that he didn't trust his personal data in the cloud just yet. He could see that it was the way of the future, but was not yet comfortable with the trust issues. Then then this week John C. Dvorak echoed the same concerns on TWiT. They are rig... (more)