Super Cali optimistic cloud is now a focus – even though the sound of it is something quite California has become the first state in the US to shift a massive chunk of its government computing system to the cloud – and dubbed it CalCloud. "CalCloud is an important step towards providing faster and more cost effective IT services to California state departments and ultimately to the citizens of California," said …
These are the same idiots that lost 20+ years of my DMV record.
My license was clean, mind (insurance company agrees) ... but it took about three months before I managed to convince the morons that I had actually been legally driving over the road since the early 1970s. They doubted me, even though I had retained all the paperwork (including lapsed drivers licenses!), because "computer says no".
Stuffing it all into a "cloud" is gong to cause paperwork mayhem.
Mark my words ...
I did some security work there once, and I was actually quite happy with the way they had set things up, they just needed to tidy up procedures to keep it that way. However, that was not DMV, though.
I can see the sense of that move, but I wonder just how safe that data will be from both theft and malicious manipulation.
That takes a bit of unpacking, but I still think there is some muddled thinking there.
Perhaps he is trying to emulate G K Chesterton's style where the paragraph finishes with a witty apparent paradox as a summary. Unfortunately, there was no closely argued paragraph to summarize.
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