Get Off My Cloud

Get Off My Cloud
Mark Rasch, 2008-08-19

When the new iPhone 3G went for sale last week, I was sorely tempted to wait in line for one. (I didn't -- no patience.)

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-19
Anonymous

"July came and went, as did August, September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April and May of 2207 before the government finally got around to telling Warshak that it had been reading his mail."

What an interesting typo(?) you have there....

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-19
Anonymous

Do you have a link or reference for last week's reconsideration decision? All I can find is the July 11 decision....

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-19
Todd Knarr

Personally I'd make a distinction between mail transmitted through a third party and mail stored by a third party. When I send mail, the mailservers in the middle have to make a copy of it to store and forward it, but the expectation is that they only hold that copy long enough to do their job and t...

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-20
Bill

"due to the high level of security used in transmitting Email messages"

This is the antithesis of fact

Postcards are less vulnerable to prying eyes than (most) emails.

An aside - bloody CAPTCHA! Each day I edge closer to failing the Turing test, what then?!...

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-20
MrGroove

Mark,

You wrote pretty much the same article last year when you talked about Google Doc's. Did you forget?...

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-08-28
Anonymous

Well, it's a valid issue, but there is a very significant difference. Mobileme from Apple requires you to PAY (as they are the new M$soft), whereas Yahoo, Google and others provide these services for no direct charge to the user.

Shame on you apple....

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-03
Anonymous

Be great if the legal stuff would end. These all read much like all the other ones....

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-09
Anonymous (1 replies)

Very well written article. You write a great article for these complainers and all you get is whining.

I knew that the government could access email to assist in criminal cases, but this clearly explains how they get away with it....

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Re: Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-11
Anonymous (1 replies)

Whining? If I need legal advice I will ask a lawyer. If I want to read about computer security I will find a book or pertinent site to do so. Endless legal diatribes on a computer security site = annoying. ...

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Re: Re: Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-17
Anonymous (1 replies)

Before you get on your high horse, you should read Mark's biography: http://www.fticonsulting.com/web/professionals/mark_d_rasch.
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Re: Re: Re: Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-19
Anonymous

Sigh. high horse? In the hope of not getting moderated here, did you bother reading this thread and my responses? Grow a thicker skin. My responses have been impersonal, unlike yours, and professional. I am simply tired of reading endless legal crap on this site. This is supposed to be a "computer s...

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Get Off My Cloud 2008-09-28
Dale

Thanks Mark for presenting this interesting information. It is of great value for those in business to know just how much expectation of privacy they can have when considering the cloud for data and messaging. Very interesting conclusions and completely surprised me considering that the 6?th US Di...

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