The Snowden effect (PRISM and Datagate): typewriters instead of PCs for the Russian secret services

This news by Flavio Fabbri on Key4biz, seems to bring a smile to a gleaning, but it says a lot about the state of things.

Electronic tools are not considered safe. But this, actually, this is not new.

All those who work in the field, they know that no electronic system is safe 100%. Sony knows something that has people beyond 27 millions of playstation player accounts, where credit card data were also stored. Banks know something about this, who find themselves more and more often facing fraud with cloned credit cards. The military apparatuses know something about this where espionage is on the agenda.

But the absolutely dangerous thing, which is passed off as convenient, futuristic and panacea for the economic crisis is the cloud!!!!

Basically, the usual crafty grown-ups thanks to an obvious one ,how little justifiable, competitive asymmetry, they don't even want to struggle to steal their data anymore ( and perhaps having to deal with more or less complex systems, committing a crime )… they simply want to allow them to spy on when and as they see fit by opening the folders uploaded to their servers, positioned in jurisdictions where doing this is what “allowed”.

L'FSO ( the Russian Federal Protection Service ) bought typewriters instead of PCs , for ordinary administrative work…a piece of paper is better than a handful of bytes!

A primary need is arising: protect your data.

For this purpose , the solution to sell “cloud affaidabile” it's very simple:

1) take out an insurance policy that you repay with at least 10 millions of euros any theft or leak of information uploaded by any person, on the cloud

2) the guarantee that the servers offered for storing information are located in jurisdictions that guarantee privacy and sanction any crime without hesitation.

As long as these two conditions are not met, why a company should use the cloud?!