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Re:Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal by sliverstorm on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @06:49PM (#5404144)
I doubt the agency is going to Amazon because they can't build and/or afford their own setup

I can build and I can afford my own versions of a great many things. I still buy from vendors.

Anyway, AWS is heavily segregated. Simply having consumer instances is not going to enable them to snoop your traffic, and simply having consumer instances is not going to enable them to make Amazon give them your traffic if they couldn't make Amazon give it to them before.

Re:Amazon and CIA ink cloud deal by rhizome on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @07:10PM (#5404273)
Yes, well, a fox inside the henhouse is not a problem until it starts going after chickens.