We have a world system; it's called the internet. Whether the data is "in the cloud" or "in the datacenter" is irrelevant to security; but security is relevant to both. There a good technical reasons for not using the cloud (intensive data access being one of those) If there are security issues, it's because it was set up inadequately.

As for one world system -- in the absence of any definitive interpretation of Revelation (which range from "historical political allegory" to "factual prediction of the future" and everything you can imagine in-between), basing technological decisions on one's choice of interpretation would seem to be a matter of faith, rather than technology. Since one's faith experience is by definition personal (in the sense that the discourse is between oneself and the divine), and since technology choice discussions are by definition public discourse (that being the nature of engineering), the two don't really mix -- except in one's own personal experience. To suggest that others should share your interpretation might seem to some (although I'm pretty sure you didn't mean it that way) as condescending, as in "if you don't see it the way my faith says it is, you are wrong." Just saying.

Hank

>Tamar, I think he had it just about right ... because of the serious nature of the threat running our apps and storing our data on the cloud brings with it. We've never had anything approaching the level of danger this brings, as it's a gateway for all commerce to be brought under one umbrella over time, and for the entire world to become a part of that system as it's just additional data expansion, a few more tables, a few more servers, etc. It's what was foretold in Revelation -- the one world system -- and it is bad. Very bad.
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>I am beside myself more people don't recognize the dangers of putting things into the cloud, and the dangers inherent in technologies like Windows Azure which actively encourage / push people into moving that way. It's like most everybody's asleep, or distracted and not paying attention. Truly baffling to me.
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>>>Opposing hate groups is whacked out?
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>>>>That right there explains a lot about his whacked out views.
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>>>>> He also works for the Software Freedom Law Center.
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>>>>Bottom line if you look at someone's medical record, and you're not authorized, you're going to be fined. Period. The feds do not take take violations lightly. Peek at military secrets, you could wind up in Guantanamo. It's not going to be what you claim.
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>>Think you're confusing the "Software Freedom Law Center" with the "Southern Poverty Law Center," which fights hate groups and so forth.
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>>Tamar