In the last week I’ve received a few disturbing notifications from free webapp operators. Both of these, to me, were basic no no’s for responsible operation of a service communicating with its customers. As I was writing to the second provider explaining why I think what they are doing is a bad idea it occurred to me that there should be a way to contribute to the solution. What follows are my rambling thoughts on the matter.
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So, here we are at the end of 2008 reading all of the year-end wrap ups of what happened this year, who stepped in doggy-do and who came out shinny clean. One of the big things this year was not only the massive adoption of cloud based services, but the very public failures of some of these services. I think most of these failures have been more sensationalized by the media as a reason to write stories than have actually directly impacted public opinion, but lets look at the real advantage these services provide.
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This article is interesting and correctly points out something which I think is often missed when considering the risk of moving applications into the cloud. What do you do when there is a platform vulnerability which the provider is not addressing?
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This is interesting. I’m not sure many people stop to think about the risks involved in saving the passwords for all your web sites within your browser. It’s not surprising the software is so vulnerable, password management is a required yet very behind-the-scenes feature of modern browsers. In these tests, which I think are fantastic, a few things stand out for me.
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