So you think cloud services can betray you? You’re probably right, and
some even say you can’t trust any network. The question is whether you
can trust your own network, or rather, devices connected to it. If you think
you can, there’s a sexy little device which I would call a personal drop
box. It is called a Pogoplug. The Pogoplug is frighteningly
simple: plug it into a power source, add a network cable, and attach between
one and four external USB drives (memory sticks or hard disks), and Bob’s your
uncle. A 1-minute registration at my.pogoplug.com does the rest, and your
storage is now available over the Internet. I’m saying this is frightening
simple because it is. Frightening, I mean. After a few clicks, you’ve
basically opened access to the Pogoplug from the Internet, without touching
firewall settings. So far so good, but can you trust the Pogoplug to keep
network traffic to itself? Probably. Or should I say hopefully? I don’t know.