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Re: Article Requests
Please present two articles for my edification.
First, a few years ago, you published a short article on ‘how to delete a Facebook account.’ I did not save it, and, once again, want to delete an account that I opened decades ago but it keeps re-surfacing. I have used Fb’s drop-down menu to delete this account, to no avail. Although there is nothing of interest, even to me, in it, it has generated all sorts of junk-mail, spam, and phishing.
Second, I keep asking, ‘no, really, what is “the cloud”?’ I’m sorry, but at the bottom of it all, there must be a physical device, possibly a mainframe or set of servers, of some sort that functions and is real, and, therefore, subject to hacking +/or invasion from the outside. My I-T people keep foisting off schematics that show nothing. From them, I am assuming that “the cloud” is really unused memory in servers, networks, +/or computers, around the world and my data are being encrypted and e-mailed from point to point, thus, susceptible to attack, interference, and corruption.
Considering that AWS has had two global system’s failures in the past two weeks, ya, two weeks!, this has gotta be a story worth investigating and printing.
I am certain that I am not the only subscriber in need of The Journal’s expertise, clarity, and objectivity in getting answers to business questions.
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The Wall Street Journal
Letters-to-the-editor
Op-ed@wsj.com
Re: Article Requests
Please present two articles for my edification.
First, a few years ago, you published a short article on ‘how to delete a Facebook account.’ I did not save it, and, once again, want to delete an account that I opened decades ago but it keeps re-surfacing. I have used Fb’s drop-down menu to delete this account, to no avail. Although there is nothing of interest, even to me, in it, it has generated all sorts of junk-mail, spam, and phishing.
Second, I keep asking, ‘no, really, what is “the cloud”?’ I’m sorry, but at the bottom of it all, there must be a physical device, possibly a mainframe or set of servers, of some sort that functions and is real, and, therefore, subject to hacking +/or invasion from the outside. My I-T people keep foisting off schematics that show nothing. From them, I am assuming that “the cloud” is really unused memory in servers, networks, +/or computers, around the world and my data are being encrypted and e-mailed from point to point, thus, susceptible to attack, interference, and corruption.
Considering that AWS has had two global system’s failures in the past two weeks, ya, two weeks!, this has gotta be a story worth investigating and printing.
I am certain that I am not the only subscriber in need of The Journal’s expertise, clarity, and objectivity in getting answers to business questions.
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