FUCK THE CLOUD

A 2009 manifesto arguing against blindly trusting cloud services with your personal data. The core argument: free cloud services are not dependable enterprises, their EULAs offer no real protection, and users who store irreplaceable data exclusively in the cloud are taking a fool's risk. Practical advice includes always keeping local copies of anything you upload, avoiding services that don't allow data export, and treating free cloud platforms as parties rather than permanent homes. Paying for a service makes you a customer with leverage; using it for free makes you the product.