I wrote this in the other thread on the leak before it died:
> Even if the leaks result from one at a time social engineering, it still really calls into question the practical security of the cloud. I doubt it's much harder to steal, e.g. confidential business documents from executives' cloud accounts than it is to steal pictures from celebrities' cloud accounts.
> If I were a big organization with confidential information, I'd really be thinking hard about my cloud policies and my BYOD policies right now. The policy at my previous employer (we handled a lot of extremely sensitive information), was pretty draconian: data never leaves a company desktop, laptop, or blackberry.
The fact that the users may be the biggest security leak is more alarming than it is relieving. Software bugs can be fixed. Getting users to follow proper security practices is much harder. And frankly, it doesn't help that the industry is actively user hostile. I gmail my passwords to myself because every site has different password rules and force me to change my passwords too often.
> Even if the leaks result from one at a time social engineering, it still really calls into question the practical security of the cloud. I doubt it's much harder to steal, e.g. confidential business documents from executives' cloud accounts than it is to steal pictures from celebrities' cloud accounts.
> If I were a big organization with confidential information, I'd really be thinking hard about my cloud policies and my BYOD policies right now. The policy at my previous employer (we handled a lot of extremely sensitive information), was pretty draconian: data never leaves a company desktop, laptop, or blackberry.
The fact that the users may be the biggest security leak is more alarming than it is relieving. Software bugs can be fixed. Getting users to follow proper security practices is much harder. And frankly, it doesn't help that the industry is actively user hostile. I gmail my passwords to myself because every site has different password rules and force me to change my passwords too often.