{"id":4032,"date":"2015-06-06T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2015-06-06T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-06T14:29:06","slug":"why-you-shouldnt-use-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4032","title":{"rendered":"Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Use the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/karl-voit.at\">Karl Voit<\/a> has a nice post that tells us why we <a href=\"http:\/\/karl-voit.at\/2015\/05\/30\/the-cloud\/\">shouldn&#8217;t trust or use the cloud<\/a>. There are lots of reasons why we might want to use the cloud and most of us are familiar with them: lots of (perhaps \u201cfree\u201d) storage that&#8217;s backed up regularly by professionals who know what they&#8217;re doing and who can provide industrial strength security. At least that&#8217;s the theory. <\/p>\n<p> It&#8217;s a cliche but no less true that if you aren&#8217;t paying for the product, you are the product. That&#8217;s the usual argument used against companies like Google but the problems run deeper. Read Voit&#8217;s post for some of those problems and why you shouldn&#8217;t fall prey to them. The alternatives are often hard and you may have to forego really useful things like syncing your data across all your devices. <\/p>\n<p> You might consider the benefits worth the downsides but you should at least know what those downsides are. Reading Voit&#8217;s post will help you decide how to balance your risks and benefits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karl Voit has a nice post that tells us why we shouldn&#8217;t trust or use the cloud. There are lots of reasons why we might want to use the cloud and most of us are familiar with them: lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=4032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[62,3],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}