Megaupload takedown demonstrates the danger of storing data anywhere in the cloud

Grazed from InfoSecurity.com. Author: Editorial Staff.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned about US government claims that a Megaupload user lost his property rights by using cloud storage has implications for all data stored by any user or company with any cloud provider, including Amazon’s S3, Google Apps or Apple iCloud.

When the FBI took down Megaupload at the end of last year, it also seized the servers and all of the files they contained. But Megaupload had many legitimate users who used the service to store their own proprietary files. Kyle Goodwin is one such user, and with the help of EFF he has been seeking the return of his property…

The government, however, is seeking to prevent or at least delay the return of Megaupload files. According to a report in Wired, “The government fears a rush of some of 60 million-plus former Megaupload customers could make a claim to get their data back.” On 30 October it filed a court brief calling, suggests EFF, “for a long, drawn-out process that would require third parties – often individuals or small companies – to travel to courts far away and engage in multiple hearings, just to get their own property back.”…

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