[Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud computing - pros and cons...

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Either that or they just break down your front door with a very heavy tool
then take all your computer hardware and storage media away for forensic
analysis (as a relative in Victoria regularly does). Same kind of thing
really. Detectives have made arrests before based on evidence collected from
computer hardware or boxes of disks thrown away. As has been explained to me
before, even formatting a hard drive does not clear all the data.

Good to read that a criminal search warrant was used to authorize this
online search. My guess is that they already had some pretty incriminating
evidence where the files were.

Does raise an interesting legal question. Can the police here execute a
search warrant in your physical company, to command access to search and
inspect your online files or is the jurisdiction of a digital search limited
to a single physical location that may contain some files.

Regards Roland

On 17 April 2010 18:56, Robert Hind <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:

>  Cloud computing - all your info is open to the world :-)
>
> Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
> Ashwood and Traralgon
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> *From:* Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
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> FBI agents targeting alleged criminal spammers last year obtained a trove
> of incriminating documents from a suspect’s Google Docs account, in what
> appears to be the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from
> a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing.
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> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/cloud-warrant/#ixzz0lLSYskNB
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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
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