On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[1]kurt.buff@gmail.com>
   wrote:

     On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Stephen D. Williams
     <[2]sdw@lig.net> wrote:
     > Everything will be run in the cloud and browser because it is,
     overall, a
     > better computation model.
     Certainly that's the current bias, but web  browser as platform
     isn't
     really all that it's cracked up to be, IMHO - all browsers suck, and
     I
     don't see them getting better any time soon, especially if they run
     javascript and plugins.
     >  However, that doesn't preclude you from running a
     > cloud locally.
     Certainly better than public/commercial clouds - at least until
     proven
     encryption becomes the norm.
     > Although pretty much proprietary to Google & Amazon until
     > recently, Docker et al and related VM/container management APIs
     that are
     > mappable to all kinds of implementations will allow apps,
     administration,
     > networking, etc. to be fluid between commercial and various types
     of private
     > clouds.
     >
     > In a lot of ways, this is an elegant solution and could arguably
     be much
     > more secure than desktop apps in Windows.  Assuming your container
     system
     > isn't running in Windows, which is becoming an option; one that I
     won't
     > trust easily.
     Eh - good sysadmins with good managers/policies can secure Windows
     just fine, though I do like jails under FreeBSD...
     Kurt

   There's data, metadata and computation.
   Homomorphic encryption is one part of the solution which fits in with
   least priv / least authority software engineering.
   Running your own infrastructure provides a false sense of security,
   anyway, benefits over cloud are likely an illusion.
   -Travis
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