We’ve all seen the massive move to cloud and push my Microsoft to get us all there even more. Â What concerns me is the fact that the NSA has been saving every single thing we’ve been doing in the cloud for years already via its Prism Program, without our knowledge.
Once the internet giants have got us 100% online, what’s stopping them from pulling the plug on us unless we fork out ridiculous sums of money? Â There are thousands of companies all over the world apart from the billions of people all storing everything online. Â How do we protect ourselves if Microsoft, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Youtube and friends join forces against us?
A valid point but at the same time if you look at the same scenario in a more regular basis things view… for example … its like you live in a village that has number of grocery stores and you depend only on them either buy from their or grow your own.. now if all the stores join forces and charge a lot.. certainly not everyone will be able to afford it and people will seek alternatives… may be end up growing their own stuff making the demand market go down and hence suppliers are at risk… now same is the case here .. if they would in any way do this… they would be taking a huge risk at their business as people who cannot afford it (which is going to be a lot) will find alternativesÂ
In short… I guess cloud has its pros and cons but not from this perspective as for them to join forces for money would mean loosing out on people.
just a thought…Â
