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

[Mark KELLY]

And on the other hand, sometimes things go the other way...

"Yahoo prevailed Friday over Colorado federal prosecutors in a legal battle
testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’
e-mail.

Saying the contested e-mail “would not be helpful to the government’s
investigation<http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/04/governmentemail.pdf>,”
(.pdf) the authorities withdrew demands for e-mail in a pending and sealed
criminal case. For the moment, the move ends litigation over the hotly
contested issue of when a warrant under the Fourth Amendment is required for
Yahoo and other e-mail providers to release consumer communications to the
authorities."
Read More
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/emailprivacy-2/#ixzz0lUY5dbyh


On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Robert Hind <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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> *To:* Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List<itapps at edulists.com.au>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 17, 2010 6:43 PM
> *Subject:* [Year 12 IT Apps] Cloud computing - pros and cons...
>
> 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.
>
> Read More
> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/cloud-warrant/#ixzz0lLSYskNB
>
>
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-- 
Mark Kelly
Manager - Information Systems
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085
School Phone +613 8520 9000
School Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au

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