On 4 Apr 2014 15:24:16 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 15:19:43 -0500, Russell Witt wrote: > >> How is sending encrypted data to the Cloud any more or less dangerous then >> sending encrypted cartridges to an off-site vault via a truck? > >Because when some bloke in a balaclava hijacks the truck and makes off with >your tapes you sure as hell know about it. But when one of Americas >non-regulated "intelligence" (FSVO) agencies decides to scoop up all your >data, they have all the time in the world to do as they wish. Undetected. >And even if they miss it on the fly, the can just get an order to access it in >the USA datacentre that is a backup. Secretly.
And anyone who thinks that the CIA. KGB, MI5, MI6 equivalent in country of choice or affliction can't do the same thing or won't is living in a dream world. I find it interesting that Snowden fled to China, then Russia. Would he be willing to out their efforts in the area? In short, your data is vulnerable to all the countries that have technical capabilities. > >Very bad all round, worse for everyone else in the world. And not just for the >(paranoid ?) mainframers, *everyone*. >At least the Europeans have made some attempt at privacy. So has Canada but I suspect that CSIS like its foreign equivalents has exemption. Clark Morris > >Shane ... > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
