If Willie Sutton had been a hacker, we know what he’d have thought about cloud computing.
Sutton, of course, was the 1930s bank robber famous for his quip that he robbed banks “because that’s where the money is.” And for hackers, the cloud might be just as tempting because it’s where a great deal of data is being concentrated.
But how much loot will modern-day Willie Suttons really be able to plunder from the cloud?
The short answer will probably turn out to be: Not much. That’s because greater data concentration makes it easier to build strong, high walls around more of it at once. Think Fort Knox. There’s a lot of gold in there — but Willie Sutton wouldn’t have stood a chance if he had tried to grab it.
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