> Former Microsoft privacy chief Caspar Bowden, speaking at a panel discussion in Brussels this week, warned that U.S. law allows the government to spy on non-U.S. citizens files and documents, and that new Europe-wide data protection law proposals specifically allow such surveillance.
The ancient ECHELON programme tells us that the US (and others) have no problem spying on citizens, using loopholes to spy on their own citizens.
The horrible state of encryption means that most people can't justify encrypted cloud storage because the cost : risk : reward and threat modelling stuff is unfavourable.
It's pretty scary that all this stuff is ending up on random servers across the world.
What do you mean by horrible state of encryption? why is it high cost to make a truecrypt container and use that as your interface? the only thing I can think of is it's inconvenient to be unable to simultaneously mount content from multiple places at once. That doesn't seem like an enormous cost, did you mean something else?
The ancient ECHELON programme tells us that the US (and others) have no problem spying on citizens, using loopholes to spy on their own citizens.
The horrible state of encryption means that most people can't justify encrypted cloud storage because the cost : risk : reward and threat modelling stuff is unfavourable.
It's pretty scary that all this stuff is ending up on random servers across the world.