To DeCloud, or not to DeCloud. That is my question.

[Baitball Blogger]

All signs point to the necessity to stop the uploads to the Cloud on our Mac products until there is a confirmation of how the actress's selfies made to the internet. So far no one is admitting that there is a bug in the Mac products and many say that the hackers got in by guessing their names and passwords. I'm not sure I buy that.

No one is coming out and saying it, but there is a possibility that the hackers found another way in, which means legal trouble for the Apple company, and is also a concern for the rest of us.

Until we know for sure, should we stop the updates to the cloud?

[WinkyDink]

1. On my Kindle Fire HDX, I can delete a photo from just the device, or BOTH the device and the Cloud.

But one must be aware of the different steps.

[hobbit709]

2. the only thing i would put in the cloud is something that I don't care about.

Not that I would use any iPOS to start with.

[Nye Bevan]

3. I don't care that my photos get uploaded to the cloud

since they do not contain nudity etc. and nobody would be interested in my vacation photos and my kids' selfies. So I would say keep on using the cloud, provided that it is all stuff that you wouldn't care about the world seeing.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Isn't there more involved than photos?

People actually write documents on their I-Pads. There are companies that are moving in that direction, giving employees their equipment. Aren't these documents also in jeopardy?

[Nye Bevan]

18. For me it's only photos.

But for documents the rule should be that you put them on the cloud only if EITHER:


1. You don't care who sees it (shopping list for example) OR

2. You have strongly (and I mean strongly) encrypted it.

[Old Codger]

4. The Cloud

Seems that a lot of people don't realize that it is only another way of saying "someone else's computer"

[NYC_SKP]

6. I don't let my Macs and other devices hook up to the cloud. However, we all use the cloud.

If we use email, we are using the cloud in a way. Our email is on servers somewhere and we access them when we use email.

All my years of Yahoo mail, for example, is in the cloud.

I try to remember to back it up on my desktop but if I didn't do that it would ONLY be in the cloud.

I don't like devices that communicate with the cloud by default, it should be made very clear to users what is going on and what the dangers are, but I fear the movement is toward all cloud all the time.

And I think that's unwise.

Maybe this recent breach of security will turn out to be a good thing.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. For me, it was a timely discovery.

People who are just getting an I-Pad might not have recognized the dangers.

[NYC_SKP]

13. I discovered in buying a new unit that shit was happening without my permission.

I think it was my iPhone 5, maybe an iPad, but all of a sudden I had doubles of everything all iPhoto items because it went out to the network or the cloud and downloaded them.

So I had to figure out why and then disable that function and start again.

[DCBob]

8. You cant really decloud.. essentially all on-line applications are in the cloud.

Cloud is such a misused and misunderstood term. It mostly refers to how hosting companies host servers.. a cloud server is virtual and dynamic as opposed to the old days when it was all hardware based.

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Which is to say that the breach could have come from a server, as much as it could have

come directly from an iCloud hack?

[DCBob]

11. In the cloud simply means your data is out there.. somewhere..

and not on your computer or mobile device.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

15. Or anywhere along the line.

Every single piece of hardware between your device and the the final storage device, including that storage device. For all we know, the 'hackers' were NSA contractees using the NSA programs in ways they're not supposed to, scooping up nudie pics as they move through the net.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. +1

[LuvNewcastle]

9. My new Kindle is coming here in

a couple of days. The only things I'll be putting on the cloud will be books and other media. Anything personal is on hard copies at home. I advise everyone to do the same.

[TheNutcracker]

12. DeCloud for sure!

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I must be doing something wrong.

I stopped the backups in setting, but now I can't get on the internet from my I-Phone.

[SheilaT]

17. Maybe this Cloud stuff will

slow down the deification of Steve Jobs, and the entire worship of Apple products.