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Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by Hermel on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:28AM (#11944932)
> This is just another nail in the coffin for US technology companies.

What are the other nails in your opinion? To me it seems that the Silicon Valley is doing quite well.

Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by jacquesm on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:22AM (#11945133)
Yes, but they could be doing a lot better. There is a whole raft of companies out there that would have been happy customers of Google, MS and Amazon cloud services that is now doing business elsewhere.
Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by Arnt on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:01AM (#11945283)
I'm sure they could be doing better, but I notice that Amazon has a region in Frankfurt specifically to address German data protection concerns.

There are Amazon employees who could be ordered by the US of A to break German law and extract data from customers at the Frankfurt site. In my judgment, the chance of their being prosecuted in Germany would be indistinguishable from 100%, so the real question is, has Amazon set up its organization such that people who are safely in the US can access such data.

Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by Johnny555 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @11:45AM (#11946538)
They'd immediately lose a large chunk of the EU customers that stored data in Frankfurt just because of EU data protection concerns. So I don't think AWS would take the risk of the USA being able to force an employee to disclose data.

I wonder if they already separate privileges between regions so one rogue employee can't take down all of their regions.

Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by Arnt on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @11:44AM (#11954792)
An Amazon employee told me that people outside govcloud (Amazon's special region for the US government) are/were technically prevented from accessing it, so the technical ability appears to be there.
Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by jacquesm on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @09:33AM (#11945445)
Ditto for Amazon Ireland.
Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by tremon on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @07:38AM (#11944964)
The other big nail is surveillance itself, especially when coupled with the fact that foreigner's data in US' corporations hands is a free-for-all for everyone.
Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D... by jdimov10 on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:28AM (#11945152)
Hardly a nail. More like a crooked little staple. In the large scheme of things, nobody cares - and this is unlikely to change.