On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 1:36:38 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> In article >,
> dsi10yahoo.com says...
> >
> > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 10:53:59 AM UTC-10, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > > I've at least twice had to have my credit card re-issued due to a
> > > data
> > > breach somewhere. These weren't even places that I shop online.
> > > The cloud is insecure. Really, it is.
> > >
> > > > Back in the old days, important files were backed up on tapes and stored in a remote location. This still holds true today except that the files are not put on tapes, placed in a vehicle, and driven away.
> > >
> > > Yes, they are. That's exactly how my employer handles backups. Ok, not
> > > on tape, but to removable hard drives. Then they've moved offsite.
> > >
> > > > As far as your files that you want to control, it's going to end up in the same place as my father-in-law's backup tapes are - stored in our bedroom or some other dusty, forgotten, place. Eventually, it's going to the dump. Perhaps it'll be dug up a hundred years or more and archaeologists will try to read the data and business of people long dead.
> > >
> > > Oh, I think I'll write a will instructing my executor to shred my hard
> > > drive (and my backups) once he's done with it. I have no children or
> > > siblings, and I've never even met my one and only first cousin.
> > >
> > I don't want to get into a discussion about security issues in the
> > modern world.
>
> But you will anyway. It's stronger than you.
>
> > My point was that young people see cloud computing
> > differently than people that grew up with the advent of the age of
> > computers. Old folks see computers as a big boxes, young folks will
> > see
> > it as virtual machines. The cloud is the computer.
>
> 15 years ago, people predicted that in a couple of years we wouldn't
> have software installed on our computers anymore. Need word processing?
> Grab a word processing application from the cloud. Need a spreadsheet?
> Grab a spreadsheet application from the cloud. Etc, etc. We're 15 years
> later and look at us. Not even Notepad comes from the cloud.

What you say is most curious. I must be responding to a 16 year old post. Yeah, that's the only reasonable explanation. Rest assured that in 2016 most people will not use desktop client programs and desktop computers. They will use small hand-held devices and programs called "apps" which connects to the internet to do that things that they need to do. I think you will like it when you finally catch up. The future - it's gonna blow your mind!



>
> > Obviously a wired
> > network is likely to be more secure than one that broadcasts data
> > through the air. Does that matter a whit? No.
>
> Of course that matters. It matters a lot.
>
> > I recently bought an RJ-45 crimper kit to make ethernet cables. It came with the crimper, 100 RJ-45 connectors, and a couple of test boxes to check the cable. It was 12 bucks. What a steal - or was it? Anyway, what this means is that wired networks are going the way of the doodoo.
>
> It's 2016 and people are still buying RJ-45 crimper kits to make
> ethernet cables. There you go!