Okay I was a little premature with the example above. Unfortunately it looks like Dropbox has dropped Boxopus even though the app was in full compliance of DMCA and Dropbox Terms of Service.
This does kinda throw the spotlight on how skittish the cloud storage providers are in the wake of the Megaupload debacle.
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Here just in: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01...buzzword_tech/
So it seems at least the EU is a bit concerned that these cloud based servers are prime targets for crackers. And we've seen in the recent past just how many sites were in deed cracked - e.g. LinkedIn, and DropBox itself: http://gigaom.com/2012/08/01/dropbox...e-were-hacked/
So even the so-called "security" is not there. The issue mentioned by the EU seems logical: A cracker might not go to all the trouble to hack into your own server, because simply the data contained there is rather a lot less than a cloud (or cloudish) server. But for some central online backup / cloud / filestore - that enticement is reversed. Much more bang for their effort if they can crack into such - so the probability of a cracker trying would be a lot greater. This makes me highly concerned - as a programmer myself, I know there's no such thing as an ABSOLUTELY secure system. If you are able to log in and do something, then the best you can hope for is to make it as secure as possible, but never impossible to crack.
It's like a door, you can kick in a bathroom door pretty easily. But a safe door requires a specialist with special equipment, yet it's still not impossible to get in. And no matter how "safe" your door - if someone's stolen the key and / or keycode (similar to the DropBox débâcle - i.e. stolen passwords), then the most secure safe door is equivalent to an opening in the wall. And yet more similar: if you place all your valuables in the safe, but store only a handful of gems in a drawer - the probability is that a cat burglar is going to go for the safe - just because the payoff is greater if he succeeds.
Note: A Hacker is NOT a cracker: http://www.tcs.org/ioport/apr05/hackers.htm
Gold is the money of kings; silver is the money of gentlemen; barter is the money of peasants; but debt is the money of slaves. - Norm Franz
And central banks are the slave clearing houses
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