Other than poetry, I’d be very interested to see your views on how well it works for spectacle-wearers (and I suspect you wouldn’t be fazed by a request for some info on your glasses prescription, as part of that). While I’m very interested in trying Glass out once it goes General Availability, I’m on a -4.75 / -5.25 dioptre prescription (with minor but weird self-cancelling astigmatism – each eye is astigmatic, but in opposite directions so my brain cancels it) and therefore have some pretty obvious concerns. Weight and front / rear balance on Glass are also important; even with really lightweight lenses, my glasses still put a weight on my nose, and need pushing up from time to time.

On all the privacy brouhaha, my reckoning is that the final consumer product will also come in a version which doesn’t have a camera (and has no camera aperture in the shell, to reflect this), and I’d expect social reaction so far means that this will be the version most customers will buy. Naturally, early and developer units will include every hardware bell / whistle Google would be thinking of incorporating, as the project is still in the stage of gathering reactions to the fundamental tech and seeing what original things developers can think of, app-wise, to do with it.

So, mark me down as “not particularly worried, but very interested”:-).

Great and detailed overview on what the cloud can do for all parties involved. I wanted to know what your opinion was in regards to the cloud and its integration into the Internet of Things. How are these two going to work together to create a holistic experience for the average user a few years from now?

Alana

Loss = Destruction, theft, data corruption. Data is lost forever.
Leak = Unauthorized people get access to data.

Loss = malicious and intentional theft of data for nefarious purposes
Loss = Damaging data beyond recovery. Intentional or intentional. For example deleting files that are not backup and can never be recovered. Or sending a file that is corrupted in transit without the possibility to restore the file and send it again.

Example 1: Attacker A steals Chris Hoff next blog post and then sells it to the highest bidder, which will undoubtedly capture ~ $100,000 in pure profit.
Example one shows intentional data loss due to theft (malicious but not nefarious) – however if Chris Hoff has a backup of the blog then it would be a data intentional leak.
If Attacker A find the blog and corrupts it using a virus, then it will be an intentional data loss with nefarious purposes. The $100,000 will be a financial loss resulting from data loss.

Example 2: Person A infiltrates Person B’s campaign managers home computer and steals schedule.
Again, the schedules cannot be recovered = loss, but if the schedule can be recovered = leak.

Leakage = accidental leakage of data due to inadequate controls, poor process or lack of policy awareness.
Example 1: Person A in accounting downloads company financial records to his un-encrypted USB stick so he can work on some analysis over the weekend on his home computer.
If the person has access to the data to do his\her job there is no leak. The leak would happen if somebody who does not have a valid business reason to use the data downloads it to the USB stick. Or if the employee shares the information with somebody who should not have access – this would be an intentional data leak.

Example 2: Person B in HR accidentally sends confidential payroll spreadsheet to all managers instead of the filtered spreadsheet which only lists personnel, reporting structure, and department number.
Yes, this would be an unintentional data leak.

So obviously the leakage scenarios are easier to prevent.

@Amrit