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Computing in the Cloud
By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, August 4, 2009.
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Google’s new operating system, Chrome, aims to move a lot of computing and storing of personal information from your own computer to be stored on the web, otherwise referred to as the cloud. Entrepreneurs and IT professionals see cloud computing as the next logical frontier, like going from answering machines to voicemail. If all of one’s information is stored in the cloud instead of on a hard drive, losing your laptop won’t be such a big deal.
Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain says not so fast. He points to serious security and privacy concerns to computing in the cloud. He’s author of The Future of the Internet – And How To Stop It and he joins us to discuss some of those concerns.
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(Photo by mansikka via Flickr/Creative Commons)
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