I’ll not rewrite what Gary Barnett has to say, except to reprint his abstract. I think it’s a thoughtful criticism of what’s been written about the Twitter fiasco, as well as cloud computing and security.
If you’re busy, here’s the abstract:
- It wasn’t twitter that was hacked – it was Google Apps
- Please don’t confuse “network” with “cloud” – it’s embarrassing to read and makes you look stupid
- This is not a story about cloud computing, it’s a story about security
- The moment you make a computer accessible via the internet you have a security challenge
- Security is an important issue for cloud computing – So instead of hyping it, or denying it, we need to deal with it
- The good the bad and the ugly – Some of the articles/blog posts I’ve seen on this topic
