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The 'cloud' idea bothered me from the start. But not as much about bandwidth and latency, but a loss of control of private data and that the company and network become single points of failure.

It's about control of my data; I have to give it up to to benefit from a computing service.

Homomorphic encryption is an interesting thought: Allow my neighbors or a computing service to process my data without them able to see it. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption



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