Why PRISM kills the cloud
By Jonny Evans
June 10, 2013 5:58 AM EDT
The migration from desktop computing to the cloud is on every tech firm's playlist this season, with Apple [AAPL] expected to deliver improvements to its iCloud service later today -- but recent revelations regarding the US government's PRISM surveillance technology could be the kiss of death to these future tech promises.
http://blogs.computerworld.com/cloud-storage/22305/why-prism-kills-cloud
It's definitely a hot topic right now. Almost all the major headlines on Drudgereport.com, for example, are about this and just how big the scope of this is. I expect a LOT of coverage of this in the coming days, weeks, etc.
Certainly scary.
Privacy isn't what it was decades ago -- that's for sure.