Keksi

Q: How can I turn off iCloud completely?

Hello guys,

 

configuration: MacBook Pro with current Lion, iPad and iPhone both with iOS 4, NOT using iCloud.

 

I switched ON iCloud on my MacBook Pro to see what happens. Then I tried to switch it off again since I decided that I don't want the system to push everything I do on my computer up into the iCloud, congesting my network.

 

Now when I tried to turn off iCloud for my Documents and Data, it says that all data stored in the iCloud would be deleted from my Mac. ****, what's that? Will I now never again be able to detatch my computer from this iCloud thing without losing all my files?

 

Please help!

 

Many thanx in advance

Keksi

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Oct 21, 2011 12:25 PM

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  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 May 26, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Nerak57
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    May 26, 2015 8:27 AM in response to Nerak57

    Nerak57 wrote:

     

    I Am taking my iPhone 6 back and seeing if I can get a Samsung galaxy   . I hate I cloud as Apple wants to aggressively sell me space on my phone rendering the smart phone useless.

    Totally incorrect, good luck with the Android.

     

    Android Security Failings

  • by bharris-1,

    bharris-1 bharris-1 Jul 1, 2015 7:27 PM in response to Required Name
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    Jul 1, 2015 7:27 PM in response to Required Name

    Didn't use to stink; does now, after this iCloud mess up.

  • by K@t3rina,

    K@t3rina K@t3rina Aug 12, 2015 5:25 PM in response to Keksi
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    Aug 12, 2015 5:25 PM in response to Keksi

    This may not be answering a particular question, but thought I'd share something of what I have learned about the Cloud, and why it has invaded our lives.

     

    The first time I heard of the cloud it was in connection with DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in a paper called The Swarm at the Edge of the Cloud which was sponsored by this defense agency - http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/papers/lee-terraswarm-ieee2014.pdf

     

    In it I found references that made my hair stand on end, but first a short description of what a terraswarm is and how it is connected, not just to icloud, but a greater Cloud technology system which icloud appears to be a part of:

     

    Abstract: Today, large numbers of sensors and actuators embedded into innovative devices are being introduced into our connected world at an accelerating rate. This

    sensory swarm, or the swarm for short, presents an extension of the infosphere (today embodied in the cloud) into the physical world. The swarm gives the cloud eyes, ears, hands, and feet, enabling services that are directly embedded in the physical world rather than just in the cyber world.

     

    Now for the scary stuff:

     

    “These sensory swarms (as they were called by Jan Rabaey in a keynote talk at the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference in 2008) can be wirelessly interconnected and interact with the cyber-cloud [meaning the cyber infosphere], and offer an unprecedented ability to monitor and act on a range of evolving physical quantities.” - This seems to be a euphamism for spying.


    Industry observers predict that by 2020 there will be thousands of smart sensing devices per person on the planet (yielding a ‘tera-swarm’); if so, we will be immersed in a sea of input and output devices that are embedded in the environment around us and on or in our bodies.”

     

    So how do these thousands of smart sensing devices arrive in and on our bodies?  Good question.  So far what I’ve been able to determine:

    Quotes from the DARPA Terraswarm paper cont:

     

    “Mobile battery-powered personal devices with advanced capabilities will connect opportunistically to the cloud and to nearby swarm devices, which will sense and actuate in the physical world.”

     

    “The TerraSwarm vision cannot be achieved by a single vendor providing the components as an integrated system. What is needed instead is the swarm equivalent of the common, general, ‘app’ framework that has recently enabled smartphones and similar devices to rapidly deploy and serve a vast range of often unanticipated applications by recruiting resources and composing services.”

     

    Swarm systems rely on vast numbers of heterogeneous sensors that are generating massive amounts of data. [SPYING]

     

    “The cloud is not just a computation and memory resource; it is an information aggregator…”

     

    Do your research - it's getting more and more difficult to get away from the Cloud for a reason.


    Best wishes all...

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Aug 12, 2015 5:54 PM in response to K@t3rina
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    Aug 12, 2015 5:54 PM in response to K@t3rina

    Do you have a hat?

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