On 4 Apr 2014 18:32:32 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 5/04/2014 6:24 AM, Shane Ginnane 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 since the data is already on Amazons elastic cloud they can spin off >a hundred thousand node supercomputer and crack your encryption in a >matter of seconds :). > >> 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. > >I wouldn't include the UK with the rest of Europe. They're in cahoots!
The French are notorious for snooping. I remember my sister saying her European friends couldn't understand wheat the big deal about Watergate was. The assumed that the snooping involved was common practice given their experience with their own governments. Clark Morris > > >> >> Shane ... >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
