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Cloud Computing - Opportunities and Risks
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Instead of saving documents, address books and photos on their hard drives, more and more people are storing them in a "cloud". This means their data is stored on a server which can then be accessed online by a variety of devices. Any changes made are then synchronized. Dropbox and Google Drive are among the best-known cloud computing providers. But IT experts warn that criminally-motivated hackers could gain access to data stored in the cloud.