How is "the cloud" a certain place?

you're making my point for me. If it isn't a certain place, then how can it possibly be evil?

Because those who control the cloud can potentially see or mess with your stuff.

a lot of our stuff can be seen anyway. Anything that currently goes over the internet. Doing email on the cloud isn't much different from sending an email from outlook.

Second, you can encrypt things in the cloud

Also if you have the data in the cloud, you no longer have direct control of it. So what if it goes down. What if they get hacked? This is why the US keeps uber-top secret stuff disconnected from the internet.

" So what if it goes down. What if they get hacked?"

For most people, this is more likely to happen to their local pc!

"This is why the US keeps uber-top secret stuff disconnected from the internet."

Are you suggesting that people not connect their computer to the internet? Otherwise, I have no idea what point you are making.

> Are you suggesting that people not connect their computer to the internet? Otherwise, I have no idea what point you are making.

No. I'm saying that being connected to the internet has inherent risks. Being in the internet 24/7 like the cloud would obviously have as much, or more, risks.

>For most people, this is more likely to happen to their local pc!

Statistically speaking, maybe. But we all think that we can keep our data and stuff safer than other people can. At least people have control over something on their computers. Plus, by putting our data in more places, we increase the risk of it being stolen. You will probably already have a local copy. Keeping it in the cloud just adds another point of failure.