I am sure that by now you’ve seen/heard a lot of rants about how insecure cloud technologies are, etc. What worries me is that these claims are made by people who have never worked with cloud technologies and therefore have no clue on the subject whatsoever.
All of these claims actually have a common root. It is only logical to think that Gmail perhaps is less secure than your self-hosted email solution, for example. [...]
My favorite tech quote is from Giorgio Maone. It goes like this: If today’s malware mostly runs on Windows because it’s the commonest executable platform, tomorrow’s will likely run on the Web, for the very same reason. Because, like it or not, Web is already a huge executable platform, and we should start thinking at it this way, from a security perspective.
Part of my job at GNUCITIZEN is to spot trends. [...]
