I agree with Harald that this discussion belongs on the sage-flame mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sage-flame
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Dr. David Kirkby (Kirkby Microwave
Ltd) <drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I think the whole closed source nature is likely to restrict the takeup of
> Sage for several broad groups of people when they realise that to get high
> performance they are going to need to store sensitive material on a Linux
> server they don't control.
>
> As a 50 year old engineer I have worked at three institutions who I know
> would not want to put workbooks on a server outside their institution.
>
> a) Ministry of Defence - no way.
> b) Airbus - no way. They are very strict on security.
> c) Marconi - most unlikely.
>
> 1) Many commercial companies are not going to be so keen to put commercially
> sensitive material on a server they don't control. Interlecural property is
> valuable company asset.
>
> Suddenly buying distributed licenses for Mathematica is more attractive from
> a security point of view. At least Wolfram Research can't look at what you
> are doing.
>
> 2) Military users are very unlikely to start working on something on a
> distributed system they can't totally control.
>
> 3) Some academics, especially those working on mathematics in areas they
> know UW specialise in, would perhaps no want to put worksheets on a server
> they know prying eyes will see. Why let someone else look at what you are
> working on and possibly beat you to publish a paper?
>
> 4) Some individuals are just paranoid and will not use a distributed system
> they don't control.
>
> No doubt HTTPS will be used to encrypt data in transit. Maybe worksheets
> are stored in an encrypted format on disk. But at some stage the data going
> to be in plain text.
>
> Has anyone working on SageMathCloud ever considered that certain users would
> not want data stored in a manner they have no control over?
>
> Dave.
>
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