Phil Smith wrote: <begin extract> Indeed. The issue with EC2 and the like isn't capability or reliability, it's security. Protecting the data yourself outside the cloud-never letting unprotected data into their network-is the only real assurance you can have. <end extract/>
I want to add, with as much urgency as I can muster, that high-security encryption must be used to provide this protection. No encryption scheme endorsed by Five Eyes provides any protection against them or indeed against similar Chinese groups. I, for one, judge that the intentions of the NSA are benign; but if it ever was that is no longer the issue. The technology for breaking these 'recommended' schemes is now so widely diffused that they provide only the illusion and not the substance of security. Paranoia is almost always dysfunctional. In this area it is not. We have all been far too naif for far too long. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
