I know that it’s an exceptionally long title but it’s something that needs to be talked about. A lot has been made about data moving to and “living” in the Cloud. Get it off of your personal server and move it to a place where it’s “safe”. If the attack on Google proved anything it’s that no one is ever really safe. Source code was purportedly stolen from over 30 companies. Now these aren’t your Mom and Pops of software these are the big dogs. Their most prized intellectual property, the stuff that makes them tick was stolen away. I guarantee the safeguards put up by these companies defy anything you have installed on a SAS 70 Type II server.
So what does this prove? No one is ever really 100% safe. Putting your data in the cloud is convenient and groundbreaking but don’t think that it means you won’t ever get hacked. There’s a million ways for people to get your password, exploit a flaw in some code and otherwise use a malicious program to gain entry to your data.