Re:CIA Director John Brennan Pretends Foreign Cryptography D...
by jacquesm on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:22AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Ditto for Amazon Ireland.
What are the other nails in your opinion? To me it seems that the Silicon Valley is doing quite well.