[uncommonsense]

For private sector activities, especially smaller orgs, I think cloud services are ideal to automate their ecosystem. But I've pioneered numerous ASP / SaaS / Cloud services and can tell you that they're not hardened against the plethora of internal and external exploits. The weakest link exposes the entire ecosystem.

Government employees are, bar none, the least sophisticated users and consumers of computing technology on the planet. It's like taking candy from a baby. Plus, there's zero accountability - they can't get fired for screwing up.

Scale up the platform to billions of users (Google), and I will 100% guarantee everything I own now, or ever will own, plus my first and only born child who I love more than life itself, that this will be an epic disaster.

[MortMan]

I cannot use cloud services because of the liability for mistakes in security.

I host my own data. I do not allow outside viewing. Therefore, I control the access cross-company to other companies’ data.

But cloud-based storage makes me liable for other peoples’ mistakes.