The 'other' cloud - parasitic storage as a service

Since some NoSQL products by default ship with no security at all, this was no real surprise after MongoDB, but the magnitude is astounding.

How about using this for something useful?

1. Scan the Internet for known products/servers that allow unconditional read/write access
2. Write storage adapters
3. Invent a mechanism to store data encrypted and with some redundancy, in case someone gets a wake up call
4. Invent a mechanism to rebalance storage if servers become unavailable or new ones are added to the list of storage nodes
5. Build a service around 1, 2, 3, and 4

There it is, the 'other' cloud, at almost no cost except bandwidth...

But of course, this is purely fictional. The bad guys don't have good ideas and the good guys won't do it. There is no illegal data stored in your session cache.

Just keep ignoring the fine manuals and carry on. Nobody needs database administrators, everybody knows that...