I am creating an app called South
Campus Congestion—where GPS’s will be installed on all busses. The app will
generate the best times for students to take the bus to and from campus to
avoid congestion. Every time a student takes the bus, they will essentially
“check in” thus alerting other students when a bus is at capacity.
To secure my application, I would not
put anything in the cloud. Although it is a backup Internet service, it is also
not very secure, if someone breaks into the cloud then thousand of my customers
information could be accessed. Essentially, if someone breaks into the cloud
they will have the ability to steal my customer’s identity, because they will
have access to all their Syracuse accounts. This is what happened to millions
of Zappos customers. Zappos was a part of the cloud, it was hacked, and 24
million users information was stolen. To back up my information I would simply
put it on a hard drive, until cloud computing is safer.
Since everything for computer is written
in bits (1’s and 0’s) it is important that I know this information. Also,
knowing the size of my application in Bytes determines how much computer
storage I would need, not only to build the app but to back it up on a hard
drive. Although hard drives use the decimal number system determining binary is
important too because all data in modern technology is stored in a series of
bits. It is also important that the people that work for me are familiar with
binary because as we make modifications to the apps each semester when the bus
schedules change, they need to know how to do this on their own.
It is a good idea to keep the user's information off the cloud, since it is significantly safer for private information. However, wouldn't it be easier to run if you had at least some information that isn't as dangerous in the cloud? If you were to reach a large number of users, then your servers and hard drives would be slower if EVERYTHING was kept on them.
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