The (Dark) "Cloud"

[guohua]

Excellent presentation, which gets the meat across without overburdening it with the bones!

I usually tend to simplify it much further, by just saying "there is no 'cloud' - the cloud is just computers, but they are OTHER PEOPLE'S computers, so storing YOUR stuff in 'the cloud' is really just giving up operational control of YOUR stuff to someone else, and giving them defacto ownership of YOUR data creations."

When the cloud was first a thing, I did store some encrypted containers on it, but never mounted them across the network - I would download them, make the changes locally, then re-upload them again to avoid sending secure keys across the network for security. You can imagine how cumbersome that was with larger containers, so I stopped doing it, as it was not worth the effort.

Now, with local storage as cheap as it is, I just store everything locally and avoid the pitfalls altogether.

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Yes, I agree with @"Ninurta"  I like the presentation and how you presented the thread.