More and more online data storage services are becoming available, letting you access anything from emails to video through the web rather than storing it on any particular device. But will they work if people don't trust these services to keep their data safe? Following up our review of SoonR, Krisse asks if we really want a Ken Dodd Internet?

"All About Symbian recently ran a review of a service called SoonR, which (amongst other things) lets you store files such as music and photos online, so you can access them from any device. One AAS reader made a very interesting comment about such services in general:

"I actually regret the idea of having my data/files transferred via a network. The reason is simple: I don't trust the network carriers, and I don't trust the service providers offering online storage. ... I like my personal storage big, offline and physically only reachable by myself."

This is typical of many internet users today, who scorn web-based services in favour of computer-based or phone-based clients and data storage.
The theory goes that web storage providers are usually huge faceless corporations whose existence is solely to make a profit, and so many tens of thousands of people work in these corporations that it would only take a few bad apples to cause a security breach. Either that, or they're tiny fly-by-night companies which will be here today and gone tomorrow, along with all of your data."

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