Since being migrated, my calendars have sprouted duplicates, along with other mysterious phenomena. Apple gives all iCloud users 5GB free storage, which is nice as I've been a user of their cloud-based service mac.com since 2001.

But I don't store my media-content in the cloud--sure, it'd be great to have all my photos in Photostream, but an ever-growing blob of data in the sky will likely burst the surly bonds of any arbitrary data-limit and "upgrade" me to a higher tier. I prefer manual control over my own data. Is that too much to ask?

But security is no luxury add-on for any cloud service. Mat Honan, writer for Wired Magazine, found out the hard way--.

It started with some unknown teenager(s) liking Honan's three-letter Twitter account. That was all: they wanted that Twitter-handle. It was cool. To get it, they ended up doing a lot, a LOT of seriously evil activity (again, ). Anonymous strangers savaged his digital existence.

How bad was it? Honan sums it up: "In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook."