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Cronus Protagonist

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15. Sure, if you send it, someone can sniff it

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #11)

Sun Aug 11, 2013, 02:21 PM

Aug 2013

And the shorter the travel, the better chance of avoiding interception. Store data on a local server in your own office and the NSA would have to crack into it to get at it, store in "the cloud" and you're naked. It's about harm reduction, minimizing exposure, creating levels of security.

And my money is on states rights here. I think what will happen is that the federal government will get "common sense" restrictions and only have access to data that are transmitted across state lines or outside the country. This will be even more of an incentive to localize.

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Bit like United States Intelligence. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #5

On this subject and likely economic effects dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #3

10-20% is just the immediate impact. As these companies go forward their designs will most jtuck004 Aug 2013 #4

Naw, it's dead - you'll see a lot more localization in the future Cronus Protagonist Aug 2013 #6

I think they mean foreign companies talking to other foreign (at least to us) companies. jtuck004 Aug 2013 #7

You'd need a direct wire to the ISP though dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #11

Sure, if you send it, someone can sniff it Cronus Protagonist Aug 2013 #15

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He's getting plenty of money; first from subscription increases, later from legal defense donations. MADem Aug 2013 #9

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Why does a country need to do anything? Public key encryption is free to anyone who wants it Recursion Aug 2013 #13

Jurisdiction usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #16

There's no such thing as a secure cloud platform Recursion Aug 2013 #12

In the US usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #17

Anywhere. It's a contradiction in terms Recursion Aug 2013 #18

As long as the gov can't access it without probable cause is good enough usGovOwesUs3Trillion Aug 2013 #19

It's amusing that Government is migrating to cloud dickthegrouch Aug 2013 #14

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