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

[Brett Groves]

Food for thought

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/31/the_out_of_control_decade/

Cheers

Brett


Roland Gesthuizen wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:robert at yinnar.com>> wrote:
>
>     Cloud computing - all your info is open to the world :-)
>      
>     Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
>     Ashwood and Traralgon
>     robert at yinnar.com <mailto:robert at yinnar.com>
>      
>      
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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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