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• 15 Feb 09
  

  Martin Lindner

  Because behind all the rhetoric and promotional guff the 'cloud' is no such thing: every piece of data is stored on a physical hard drive or in solid state memory, every instruction is processed by a physical computer and the every network interaction con

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• 04 Jan 09
  

  debbie landa

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• 03 Nov 08
  

  George Johnson

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• 26 Jun 08
  

  Krishnan Subramanian

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• 24 Jun 08
  

  Jan Gondol
• 03 Jun 08
  

  Julie Starr

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• 30 May 08
  

  Alain Antone

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  • He uses a range of productivity tools, scheduling services and collaborative systems to manage both his personal and professional life, and once confessed to me that he had "outsourced his memory" to Microsoft Outlook and its calendar service.
  • Those of us who use the cloud just need to be clear about the realities of the situation - and not send or store anything on GoogleMail or HotMail that the US government might want to use against us
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  • • The issue was recently highlighted by reports that the Canadian government has a policy of not allowing public sector IT projects to use US-based hosting services because of concerns over data protection.
    • Under the US Patriot Act the FBI and other agencies can demand to see content stored on any computer, even if it being hosted on behalf of another sovereign state.
    • Even encrypting the data stored in data centres won't always work, as one of the benefits of Amazon's S3 and other services is that they do remote processing too, and the data needs to be decrypted before that can happen.
    • This is not just a US issue, of course, although attention has focused on the US because that it where most of the cloud data centres can be found. It applies just as much to the UK, where the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act will allow the police or secret services to demand access to databases and servers. And other countries may lack even the thin veneer of democratic oversight that the USA and UK offer to the surveillance activities of their intelligence agencies.
• 27 May 08
  

  Henry Kessler

  Way too often, governments keep trying to edge in on the freedom of the net. The tail end of this article has merits.

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  Raphael Cockx

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