Another Data ‘Cloud” Bust with the Closure of The Linkup

“Can you trust your data to the cloud? For users of an online storage service called The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, the answer turned out to be a resounding “no.” The Linkup shut down on Aug. 8 after losing access to as much as 45% of its customers’ data. “When we looked at some individual accounts, some people didn’t have any files, and some people had all their files,” The Linkup CeO Steve Iverson admits. None of the affected users will get their lost data back. Iverson called it a “worst-case scenario.”“

Although this isn’t the type of story that normally gets around these parts the first sentence of the article poses a very important question. How many of you would trust your data in the hands of someone else? What about your privacy rights? Its an issue with people on both sides of the fence.

Link (via Slashdot)

Posted by Nelson @ Evoflux on 08/12 at 07:42 AM in NewsTechnologySecurity • (3) Comments

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#1. Posted by Dress Up on July 01, 2009

There are certainly a lot of details like that to take into consideration. That’s a great point to bring up. I offer the thoughts above as general inspiration but clearly there are questions like the one you bring up where the most important thing will be working in honest good faith. I don’t know if best practices have emerged around things like that, but I am sure that your job is clearly identified as a fair game.
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#2. Posted by Rachel Klawson on July 14, 2009

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#3. Posted by testking 1Y0-A09 on August 28, 2009

It was 72 years ago today when the Hindenburg disaster occurred resulting in the deaths of 36 individuals of which all but one were on the ship. And to make it even stranger is the fact that 72 years later the conspiracy theorist still crawl out of the woodwork about why and how it happened. Don’t get me wrong,
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