The iCloud Goes Ooops!

With the sudden excitement over the "hacking" of private pictures of celebrities from the Apple iCloud, it seems that people are coming out of the clouds and being surprised about how data processing really works. Sure enough the CLOUD is just a bunch of computers with a bunch of storage being controlled by a bunch of folks no brighter than anyone else. It's a business like any other with costs to control like any other.

Sure enough the "brilliant" gurus at Apple forgot to put simple code in their system to disable accounts after the user could not sign on a number of times. A simple human error, everyone makes them. There is no magic in the cloud. Whether the cloud is the Amazon cloud, the Google cloud, the Apple cloud, or anyone else's; your data in in the hands of hundreds of strangers working boring jobs watching for hardware glitches during long nights and weekends. Think they look around?

At Safefunds, there is no cloud. Our members' information is kept on our own servers under our control. That doesn't mean we are exempt form hacker attacks; but it does mean, we know exactly who has access to our information in our data center at all times. It sure cuts the risk. There's a reason we stay off the clouds. Our members prefer us to be down to earth.