Currently there is a huge furore in the British press around some celebrities who have had dubious images of themselves published online. Nothing out of the ordinary there you may think, except that these photos were originally stored on a Cloud service that appears to have been hacked. Although this issue is specifically regarding the iCloud service, it hasn't stopped the Red Tops pronouncing the Cloud as the new global evil. It did also start me thinking about how quickly Cloud based services have crept into the daily lives of people that don't necessarily have an IT background.
Then at breakfast one morning, my wife mentioned in a conversation about how silly these people were in storing their 'adult' images on such services and I explained that they might not necessarily realise that this synchronisation is happening at all, Even when I take a snap on my phone or tablet it gets whizzed off to Dropbox or Google+, all without any interaction from me. That is when I decided to perform a little experiment... How many different Cloud services do I use over the course of a week and will I surprise myself at the end of it? Now as I work in IT I have a little idea of how I think it will turn out, but lets not pre-empt the results eh?
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