NSA Prism scandal could cost US cloud computing industry $35 billion

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I think the viewpoint that the article expresses is a bit extreme.

The cost to companies of changing cloud providers from Amazon EC2 to anything else alone would be substantial enough to make most businessmen hesitate.

And if the NSA was ready to go to these lengths, and were indeed collaborating with other governments, I think it would be naive to believe that just because a Cloud provider wasn't based in the USA, they wouldn't have opened their data vaults to the intelligence agency of their respective country.

Prism definitely hurts the USA and its image, no doubt, but I don't think it will kill the US Cloud business.

I'm much less worried about almost any other country seeing my data, as long as they don't share with the NSA.

But why should that have to be something that you accept? Every government loves power, and it is the job of the people and the press to restrict that love.

"Lingering Effects of DOJ Snooping on Media" http://youtu.be/QOFLLDih9fw

So I guess it comes to which mantra is gonna win out:

JOBS! or TERRORISM!

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