The cloud is cool. But it's not always there. That's what some Amazon customers learned today after another outage on Amazon's cloud computing platform knocked off several popular websites offline. Foursquare said the failure kept it and other services from working for "about 2 hours," according to an email from spokeswoman Erin Gleason.
"It's not just nude photographs Jennifer Lawrence, Kirsten Dunst and other victims of the celebrity photo theft have to worry about being accessed by hackers - it's their GPS co-ordinates, private text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs and any other data stored on their phones and backed up to the cloud."