On 2/10/2013 10:13 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > 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.
Further to my previous rant, here's a piece from The Register written by our very own Richard Chirgwin: Cloud is a key-management pain: NIST http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/02/cloud_is_a_keymanagement_pain_nist/ -- 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
