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Cloud computing s growing pains 云计算的发轫之困 Break-ins and breakdowns 侵入和故障 The lessons from Sony s big security lapse andAmazon s cloud-computing outage 从索尼的巨大安全漏洞和亚马逊的云计算中断中汲取的教训 IT COULD turn out to be the biggest breach of dataprivacy since the advent of the internet. Sonyadmitted this week that hackers had stolen personalinformation, possibly including credit-card details, of many of the 77m-plus users of its online-gaming and entertainment networks. The Japanese company did not admit the full extent ofthe potential risks to its customers until nearly a week after it had taken its PlayStationNetwork off air, though it insisted that it had done so as soon as it realised how serious theintrusion into its systems had been. 这可能是互联网出现以来最大一宗违反数据保密的事件了。本周，索尼承认，黑客们盗走其在线游戏和娱乐网络中超过7700万用户的个人信息很可能包括信用卡资料。在将PlayStation网络关闭近一周之后，索尼才向它的客户承认其潜在风险。尽管如此，索尼坚称，在它意识到系统被侵的严重性之后，它便做出了反应。 Amazon, an American online retailer and provider of cloud computing services, has alsosuffered a lengthy breakdown at one of the giant server farms whose storage and processingfacilities it rents to other companies. The two lapses, though unconnected and different innature, have raised the question of whether customers can really trust the basic idea behind thecloud-that you can buy computing services from the internet, just like gas or water from autility. | 
