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Thread ID: 133713 2013-06-07 07:11:00 Gathering clouds fred_fish (15241) PC World Chat
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1344941 2013-06-07 07:11:00 Seems 'the cloud' does indeed have a red, white and blue lining ...
www.theregister.co.uk ies/
fred_fish (15241)
1344942 2013-06-07 09:29:00 Bigger Brother is watching you . :stare:

Cloud operations may be all good and handy but it also has a huge downfall -- privacy.
wainuitech (129)
1344943 2013-06-07 12:35:00 Just mentally replace "cloud" with "for suckers" and the conversation makes so much more sense Agent_24 (57)
1344944 2013-06-07 18:36:00 Via Reddit:

www.wired.com
zqwerty (97)
1344945 2013-06-07 19:58:00 And the yanks like to accuse Huawei of spying.

As usual, they first need to take a good hard look at themselves.

I think the substitution of "sucker" as mentioned above is bang on the mark. They aren't offering online storage for our benefit. It's to make their spying easier for them.
Paul.Cov (425)
1344946 2013-06-07 22:57:00 And the yanks like to accuse Huawei of spying.

I think the substitution of "sucker" as mentioned above is bang on the mark. They aren't offering online storage for our benefit. It's to make their spying easier for them.

Everybody spies.

I think I found that joke on xkcd.
Agent_24 (57)
1344947 2013-06-07 23:05:00 www.politicususa.com DeSade (984)
1344948 2013-06-07 23:41:00 www.politicususa.com

Those who are concerned about privacy have not been able to put a dent in the Patriot Act, because most Americans decided to trade some liberty for security after 9/11.That seems a rather optimistic interpretation of how it came into law. But given how American democracy works, it seems that the rest of the world also "decided" to do the same trade-off.
For our own protection, of course.
And it's only evil if the bad guys do it, right?
fred_fish (15241)
1344949 2013-06-08 02:45:00 www.techmeme.com e%20outrageous%20press%20reports%20about%20PRISM:% 20%28Mark%20Zuckerberg/Facebook%29%2006-07-2013&des=%20Mark%20Zuckerberg%20/%20Facebook:I%20want%20to%20respond%20personally%2 0to%20the%20outrageous%20press%20reports%20about%2 0PRISM: %20— %20Facebook%20is%20not%20and%20has%20 never%20been%20part%20of%20any%20program%20to%20gi ve%20the%20US%20or%20any%20other%20government%20di rect%20access%20to%20our%20servers. %20We zqwerty (97)
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