Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?' 241
mask.of.sanity writes "The chief security officer for Google Apps, Eran Feigenbaum, said popular concerns over data sovereignty in outsourced environments are unwarranted. He said businesses should worry about security and privacy of data, rather than where it is stored. The comments clash with those made by IT pros including Gartner, who said cloud providers like Google can't be trusted with sensitive data."
Re:Encrypt it then (Score:5, Informative)
If the data is sensitive, you should be encrypting it anyway
Sure, because if the data is encrypted, the only people who can get into it are those with gigantic server farms. (Like Google)
Besides, who would be interested in random encrypted data? It would be cost prohibitive to decrypt data to peek at it, unless there are advances in supercomputing. (Which google is actively working on)
The only company which would want to do that is one which has a business model built on collecting and monetizing private data (See: Google)
Yep. I can't see any reason why people should care about where they store cloud data.
AES256 is crackable with a complexity of 2^99.5: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard [wikipedia.org]
So, if Google's advanced supercomputer can crack a billion keys/second and they have 1 billion computers at their disposal to do the cracking, it would only take them around 1 x 10^17 years to crack your data.
Of course, now that you've figured out their plan, they're going to have to kill you, and they will surely do so within 1 x 10^2 years.
Re:Encrypt it then (Score:4, Informative)
I live in the UK, If my data is with Google they can get the data fairly easily, if it is on my hard drive, they can stay the hell out of my life ....