Every time a bank helps itself to money which has been entrusted for safe keeping in one of their accounts without first issuing an invoice and then awaiting settlement in the same way everyone else waits for payment, an act of straightforward criminal theft has occurred.

The law is plain and simple, there are no special provisions.

On the contrary, to take a customer's money and as a consequence drive their business into bankruptcy as a result of such confiscation (when the nature of a bank is trust & security) is a double or triple transgression.

Yet, when they err, we bail them out.

The Cloud

“Your data is safe with us, we hold it on secure servers where it is encrypted and split into numerous fragments.

Why would a commercial enterprise in a highly volatile and competitive market offer free computer-drive disc space, complete with multiple backups, maintenance, security personnel, staff screening and regular upgrades with the old drives being sent away for recycling or destroying, with a claim to no personal benefit or gain to themselves?

Accountants, biz gurus, bankers, explain, please, show us the arithmetic behind the promise.

Android phones forbid us from opening a document without first surrendering a copy to the cloud. How does 'Google Docs' differ from breaking into the Watergate building to see what's in the filing cabinets?

What is their purpose, why is such data valuable?

Analysis of our documents and pictures enables robot machines to analyse us in three, four, five dimensions. Equipped with such detailed information, we can be tweaked, provoked, tracked, disheartened, encouraged and manipulated, not just by corporate Sales & Marketing departments, any buyer.

"The more he talked about his honour the faster we counted our spoons"

- Emerson  

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