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At the risk of sounding trollish: isn't the acquirer (Savvis aka CenturyLink) a major US telco who is pretty friendly with the NSA snooping (and who somehow also acquired Qwest which resurfaced a few times through the NSA maelstrom)?

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Yes. Their previous CEO, Joseph Nacchio, was in prison for not cooperating. Heard he's been moved to a halfway house? Not sure on that though.

You're thinking of Qwest.

It's arguable that Nacchio's non-compliance caused Qwest to sell to CenturyLink, but it isn't fair to say that Nacchio was the CEO of CenturyLink.

Since the PRISM news broke people are starting to associate cloud with a place to get spied on. It's no different than a web host. If they want your info, they'll get it and whether you us a cloud service won't be the deciding factor.

I was merely outlining that the acquirer hasn't displayed a pattern of being very interested in defending the privacy of its users. There's a difference between complying with the law and what the big telcos have been doing.

Would it be possible to easily grab the data from a running dedicated server without interrupting service to the user?

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