If it were any other company, an executive going on the record with an unfavorable comment regarding the cloud when his or her company was a major player in that space would have been met with swift punishment. But this is Apple and the executive in question is Steve Wozniak, the outspoken tech activist and everyone's favorite geek who doesn't shy away from criticizing anything and anyone, even the company he co-founded.

Following a special performance of Mike Daisey’s monologue "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs", the Woz took the stage for a Q&A session with the audience. His take on the cloud (and consequentially Apple's iCloud)?

It's a ticking privacy bomb waiting to explode and nuke our digital selves from orbit. We cannot even begin to wrap our heads around such a security nightmare because most of us haven't been through a mass-scale cloud disruption (yet). Those BlackBerry email server outages and T-Mobile's Danger incident? Just timely warning signs of things to come.

TIMELY: Conveniently, AT&T just suffered what one blog described as a "massive outage".