Quote Originally Posted by m^2 View Post
Sure. But there's little gain from hacking your machine.
I concur if we mean hacked by human hands. However, my machine is "hacked" by worms and viruses on a regular basis. The random/viral acts of violence against my client can and have destroyed personal data. They have also rendered my machine utterly useless requiring OS re-install. These are, for all intents and purposes, simply automated "hacks" which lack the precision of a deliberate, nefarious human hand but nevertheless severely compromise client data.

Hence the allure of making this the problem of an organization with more robust security who is able to respond to security threats in real time. Which as we have illustrated has its own problems. In short, at the end of the day, is my data "safer" on a vulnerable (automated, non automated hacking) client or a (also vulnerable) Cloud backed by a well managed data service provider?