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The issue of online security is never far in the background these days: high-profile TV presenters in court for downloading child pornography [link]; Julian Assange holed-up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London; or attacks by Anonymous on Melbourne IT (AAPT) records that allegedly made some of the ISP's users' private information public.
While we can all applaud the apprehension of criminals through police monitoring; and we might be swayed by Assange's assertions that corporate and government secrets are forms of conspiracy and that such conspiracy is a bad thing; we may not be so pleased by our browsing history; or worse, our medical history; or our employer's HR records being made available to a cyber bully or blackmailer.
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Thanks to computer and communications technology we live in exciting times. The bounds of technological possibilities seem limitless. The changes decade by decade have already been unprecedented. Where is all this going?
Or see a youthful one from the past [31st October 1986] here...
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The first version of this article was written back in 2005 as a contribution to a strategic planning exercise. I was arguing for putting those things like marketing and so on, that we ultimately wanted to be seen, in the Cloud as this would save money. But I stressed that the Cloud is not secure so it was imperative that we retained our 'physical corporate information infrastructure'.
I predicted that in future: 'Corporations will need to look to ways in which they can split their computing requirements between the internal systems and the Cloud'; and 'We can expect the development of new software systems to facilitate (e-mail attached) document passing between secure corporate environments and the Cloud'; implicitly, because e-mail is not secure.
The article was slightly updated in 2010, when I opened this website. I added some now outdated and since removed comments on that experience.
I've left the main content here, essentially unchanged since 2005, because it's still relevant; and it's always good to see one's predictions fulfilled.