A lot of the concern I've seen is how wikileaks ( and in some cases other organisations associated with wikileaks) was terminated by it's providers such as Amazon, Paypal and Mastercard.
It appears that in some cases they we're leaned on by the US Govt and invoked the "close your account with no notice for any reason" clauses in their contracts. For example $WORK is a news organisation that will from time to time publish material critical of various governments and large organisations. Should I now be worried that our suppliers will pull our infrastructure out from under us after a phone call from a Senator's office? At least if I have real physical servers somebody [usually] needs a warrant to come in a seize them. If I had everything in Amazon EC2 and S3 then it would be DR time (you have DR separate from your cloud vendor right?) http://www.americanbanker.com/btn_issues/23_12/-1029718-1.html http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/212253/amazons_wikileaks_rejection_raises_cloud_trust_concerns.html -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
