PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies
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PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies
By Antonio Ieranò on August 31, 2013 at 7:17 PM
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- 1 Could we have anticipated this?
- 2 Security is a trust based affair
- 3 Cloud considerations
- 4 Privacy and encryption
- 5 Conclusion
Every day new information emerges on the extension of NSA’s PRISMprogram. We discovered that e-mail, phone calls, services, even conference systems have been cracked and gone under illegal surveillance. We also learned that the NSA paid US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, AOLto allow this and when this was not possible resources were brutally hacked.
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