Cloud Computing: Hard-drive spying – Will Silicon Valley push back against NSA?

February 19, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from BizJournals. Author: Greg Baumann.

Will NSA-linked hard-drive spying help Silicon Valley find its grit? One might think that the news that the National Security Agency has apparently hidden spying software on hard drives produced by Silicon Valley companies would prompt outraged calls for urgent change. Unless one looked back and saw how little has changed since initial reports that the NSA was tapping data lines and building backdoors into security protocols.

The latest disclosure, based on a report by Russian computer-security firm Kaspersky Labs and validated by Reuters reporter Joe Menn, will renew the discussion in Silicon Valley as to how much government spying impacts U.S. technology company sales. But costs mount as that discussion plays out…

Forrester in 2013 predicted that the U.S. cloud computing industry alone could take a $180 million hit to revenues through 2016 due to NSA spying…

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