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cloud
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n. Somewhere you don't want to put your files. Insecure centralized location,
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usually administered by a megacorporation.
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The term "cloud computing" became popular after about 2010 to refer to putting
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your files onto a centralized server system which you don't own and have no
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control over - thereby exposing your data to numerous threats and "third party
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doctrine" legal disputes.
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The rise of cloud computing also eliminated many system administrator jobs
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within small companies, which had been a traditional source of income for many
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hackers. Companies could make their sysadmins redundant, but now a bigger
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megacorp controlled their asses.
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When hackers use "the cloud" it's a server which they have root on, and client
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side encryption may be used to ensure that whoever is administering the
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server can't get access to the data. |