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<blockquote data-quote="jeffsw6" data-source="post: 15046" data-attributes="member: 14"><p>Re: iPhone 4 is on Verizon!!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There are two issues to concern yourself with here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First, is the ''cloud'' secure? Large, aggregate databases containing contact information for millions of users represent the largest targets for identity theft. If you were a bad guy, you would rather hack Apple or Vodafone (<a href="http://www.freeaccess.com.au/Structure:%20/2011/01/10/privacy-commissioner-probes-alleged-vodaphone-breach/" target="_blank">http://www.freeaccess.com.au/Structure:%20/2011/01/10/privacy-commissioner-probes-alleged-vodaphone-breach/</a>) and get millions of users' information, than trick one user into installing malware on their phone. In addition, a disgruntled employee on his way out could do immense damage with a USB stick.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Second, phone companies engaged in so much secret and illegal sharing of customers' data, including records of phone calls, billing information, actual intercepts of calls and text messages, and no doubt, data stored on companies' servers, that Congress passed a law granting them retroactive immunity from prosecution or civil complaint.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>When a global law firm with clients including sovereign governments sued the U.S., claiming that their attorney-client privilege had been violated by illegal wiretapping, and tried to subpoena records of this wiretapping activity to prove their allegations, their subpoena was quashed under the premise that the government admitting it spied on legally protected attorney-client communiques would compromise national security. Their lawsuit was then dismissed because the federal judge said they could not proceed without standing, and to prove their standing theory, they needed ... specific evidence of wiretaps that the U.S. has said are categorically secret to the extent that knowledge of their existence would compromise national security.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So you also have to trust Big Brother not to leak or misuse the data they are getting from the cloud service provider.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you choose to use a cloud, that's certainly fine. Just don't put anything in it that really must be private/secret.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeffsw6, post: 15046, member: 14"] Re: iPhone 4 is on Verizon!!! There are two issues to concern yourself with here. First, is the ''cloud'' secure? Large, aggregate databases containing contact information for millions of users represent the largest targets for identity theft. If you were a bad guy, you would rather hack Apple or Vodafone ([url="http://www.freeaccess.com.au/Structure:%20/2011/01/10/privacy-commissioner-probes-alleged-vodaphone-breach/"]http://www.freeaccess.com.au/Structure:%20/2011/01/10/privacy-commissioner-probes-alleged-vodaphone-breach/[/url]) and get millions of users' information, than trick one user into installing malware on their phone. In addition, a disgruntled employee on his way out could do immense damage with a USB stick. Second, phone companies engaged in so much secret and illegal sharing of customers' data, including records of phone calls, billing information, actual intercepts of calls and text messages, and no doubt, data stored on companies' servers, that Congress passed a law granting them retroactive immunity from prosecution or civil complaint. When a global law firm with clients including sovereign governments sued the U.S., claiming that their attorney-client privilege had been violated by illegal wiretapping, and tried to subpoena records of this wiretapping activity to prove their allegations, their subpoena was quashed under the premise that the government admitting it spied on legally protected attorney-client communiques would compromise national security. Their lawsuit was then dismissed because the federal judge said they could not proceed without standing, and to prove their standing theory, they needed ... specific evidence of wiretaps that the U.S. has said are categorically secret to the extent that knowledge of their existence would compromise national security. So you also have to trust Big Brother not to leak or misuse the data they are getting from the cloud service provider. If you choose to use a cloud, that's certainly fine. Just don't put anything in it that really must be private/secret. [/QUOTE]
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