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"The Cloud" is like storing your data with skywriting, you can see it from many locations, but so can your neighbors

A very poor analogy when encryption exists

Who said skywriting can't use encryption?

What skywriting uses encryption? How is that a useful metaphor for describing the downsides of "cloud storage"?

For the average cloud platform it is totally insufficient to protect you from a bad actor or stupid programmer at the provider.

Imagine if IAM had a major vulnerability suddenly...