Episode 8 - The Cloud, De(mist)ified

Tech Tho(ugh)ts

English - September 04, 2020 00:00 - 17 minutes - 27.5 MB
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Previous Episode: Episode 7 - Hey Smart Assistant, Are You Spying On Me?

Next Episode: Episode 9 - The Social (Net)works

What is the cloud? A mystical place where all your stuff goes? A pocket dimension? A literal glowing cloud watching over us all? And what is it hiding? Pictures? Documents? Your friendly neighborhood hacker-ma— wait, what?

As always, sources for everything we talk about are available on our website.

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Sources:

What is “The Cloud”:

Cloudflare, ‘What Is The Cloud? | Cloud Definition”National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2011 September, ‘The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing”

iCloud Leak, ‘The Fappening”:

CBS News, 2014 September 4, ‘Apple’s celbrity iCloud leak probably has mundane causes’The Washington Post, 2014 September 2, ‘4chan: The ‘shock post’ site that hosted the private Jennifer Lawrence photos’

Verizon Cloud Leak:

Dark Reading, 2017 July 12, ‘Verizon Suffers Cloud Data Leak Exposing Data on Millions of Customers‘

AWS – Related Leak (Small Business Data) + Breaches are due to client/setup error:

Infosecurity Magazine, 2020 March 18, ‘Cloud Database Leak Exposes 425GB of Small Biz Financial Data’The Wall Street Journal, 2019 August 27, ‘Human Error Often the Culprit in Cloud Data Breaches’

PRISM & Dropbox:

The Washington Post, 2013 June 7, ‘U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program‘

Self-Hosted Cloud Options:

Nextcloud Pydio Seafile

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