On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 23:03 +0000, Paul Donner (pdonner) wrote:
Great opportunity for a country like Brazil (for example) to become a place of business for many of these services which are subject to Calea (and such) in the US. This type of behavior is certainly a motivator for folks in other countries to benefit, to our detriment.
If the NSA is truly undermining the security of private enterprises which rely on compromised security implements, besides being counter productive, it will cost (maybe already has) in lost revenue or damages. Sooner or later this is going to take its toll. In the end the universal language of "cold hard cash" will reign.
You mean like this? http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-cloud-industry-stands-to-lose-35-billion-amid-prism... As one currently working in the cloud this is deeply concerning. --Chris