Operation PRISM will have effect on cloud industry – for good or bad
June 8, 2013
Grazed from CloudPro. Author: Maxwell Cooter.
One of the most-quoted fears about moving to cloud is that the data is not secure. For many companies, the idea that vital customer data is held in an unspecified place, available for access by unknown people is a big inhibitor to the idea of cloud computing.
Cloud service providers have always been aware of that fear and have made reassuring noises about the safety of their data and that no unwelcome visitors could help themselves to their customers’ own data. What they didn’t say is that when it came to the US government, they’d roll out a welcome mat and make them a cuppa while the spooks sifted through what they wanted…
That’s the shocking implication of the Washington Post and Guardian reports regarding Operation PRISM, in other words, the US security services’ access of data from nine IT companies. The denial of the nine companies is almost irrelevant and has been the subject to much speculation. Does Google’s talk of ‘no back door’ mean the NSA is coming through the front door instead? When Apple says it hasn’t heard of PRISM does that just mean that it wasn’t aware of the operation name the NSA was using? Of course, it could be that the Guardian and Post stories are completely wrong – that’s the line that Business Insider appears to be taking – but, given the nature of these revelations, these stories must have been checked and double-checked. Both newspapers are happy that these documents are authentic, so it’s the least likely option…
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