On 2/10/2013 10:37 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote: > At 10:24 AM 2/10/2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: >> Some consumers might be interested in the potential impact of the >> Patriot Act on the data that Amazon holds on behalf of its business/org >> users. >> >> We all have complete trust in overseas governments, don't we? > Now *that* question was asked and he answered that it was ASIO in the > case of Australia, which can pretty much do what it wants. His > solution was to encrypt everything.
Easy to say, harder to do. If we are talking about SQL databases rather than folders with documents then you would need to build the encryption into the data access layer. This means two things. 1. you probably can't just shift an existing application into the cloud. 2. the bad guys would just take a copy of the whole environment, application, data access layer, infrastructure and all, and run it in their own closed environment which, being standard, should not be hard to duplicate. I don't know how realistic all this worry about bad guys stealing data is, but if you put your data in a cloud, things are different from them being in your own environment. Caveat emptor. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email:[email protected] web:www.drbrd.com web:www.problemsfirst.com Blog:www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
