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

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sun Sep 14, 2014, 10:06 AM

Sep 2014

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.

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To DeCloud, or not to DeCloud. That is my question. [View all] Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 OP

On my Kindle Fire HDX, I can delete a photo from just the device, or BOTH the device and the Cloud. WinkyDink Sep 2014 #1

the only thing i would put in the cloud is something that I don't care about. hobbit709 Sep 2014 #2

I don't care that my photos get uploaded to the cloud Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #3

Isn't there more involved than photos? Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #5

For me it's only photos. Nye Bevan Sep 2014 #18

The Cloud Old Codger Sep 2014 #4

I don't let my Macs and other devices hook up to the cloud. However, we all use the cloud. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #6

For me, it was a timely discovery. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #7

I discovered in buying a new unit that shit was happening without my permission. NYC_SKP Sep 2014 #13

You cant really decloud.. essentially all on-line applications are in the cloud. DCBob Sep 2014 #8

Which is to say that the breach could have come from a server, as much as it could have Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #10

In the cloud simply means your data is out there.. somewhere.. DCBob Sep 2014 #11

Or anywhere along the line. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #15

+1 Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #16

My new Kindle is coming here in LuvNewcastle Sep 2014 #9

DeCloud for sure! TheNutcracker Sep 2014 #12

I must be doing something wrong. Baitball Blogger Sep 2014 #14

Maybe this Cloud stuff will SheilaT Sep 2014 #17