What is the cloud? A mystical place where all your stuff goes? A pocket dimension? A literal glowing cloud watching over us all? And what is it hiding? Pictures? Documents? Your friendly neighborhood hacker-ma— wait, what?

Sources:

What is “The Cloud”:

• Cloudflare, ‘What Is The Cloud? | Cloud Definition”
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2011 September, ‘The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing”

iCloud Leak, ‘The Fappening”:

• CBS News, 2014 September 4, ‘Apple’s celbrity iCloud leak probably has mundane causes’
• The Washington Post, 2014 September 2, ‘4chan: The ‘shock post’ site that hosted the private Jennifer Lawrence photos’

Verizon Cloud Leak:

• Dark Reading, 2017 July 12, ‘Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers‘

AWS – Related Leak (Small Business Data) + Breaches are due to client/setup error:

• Infosecurity Magazine, 2020 March 18, ‘Cloud Database Leak Exposes 425GB of Small Biz Financial Data’
• The Wall Street Journal, 2019 August 27, ‘Human Error Often the Culprit in Cloud Data Breaches’

PRISM & Dropbox:

• The Washington Post, 2013 June 7, ‘U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program‘

Self-Hosted Cloud Options:

• Nextcloud
• Pydio
• Seafile

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