These USB stick stories tell us that, in fine, "existing" data has to have one physical location (or more). The cloud is not magically breaking this "existence principle". Instead, cloud user and data owners (or are they?) are just trusting a third-party service with the physical existence of their data.
The fast that people are able to smuggle slices of the Web in SD cards should remind us that issue, as much as the next big data loss or leak.
These USB stick stories tell us that, in fine, "existing" data has to have one physical location (or more). The cloud is not magically breaking this "existence principle". Instead, cloud user and data owners (or are they?) are just trusting a third-party service with the physical existence of their data.
The fast that people are able to smuggle slices of the Web in SD cards should remind us that issue, as much as the next big data loss or leak.