On 17/07/12 17:12, Jan Goyvaerts wrote:
Are there safe solutions to these concerns on EC2 ? Or any other
provider for that matter.
No.
"Don’t put anything in the cloud you wouldn’t want a competitor, your
government, or another government to see."
http://www.netop.com/solutions/report-privacy-and-confidentiality-in-cloud-computing.htm
"Companies should not underestimate the level of corporate espionage –
often backed by governments and their intelligence agencies – now taking
place across the world. That is the message of security specialists
following the revelation by Jonathan Evans, the head of the UK's
intelligence service, MI5, that one company suffered an estimated £800m
loss as a result of the theft of its intellectual property."
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2187123/corporate-espionage-an-industrial-scale-targeting-uk
Less risky options are your own private cloud, or a cloud operated by a
provider in your own country where you have both contractual agreements
to protect confidentiality and the protection of the law. Any provider
with any services physically located in the US fails this test because
the Patriot Act allows US intelligence agencies warrantless access to
your data, and forbids your provider from telling you about it.
Kind regards,
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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben.caradoc-dav...@csiro.au>
Software Engineer
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre
