--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com wrote:
From: Stephen Gallagher sgallagh@redhat.com Subject: Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ... To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 8:16 AM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On 07/20/2010 10:58 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I am opposed to it, because I don't want to trust a
third party with my files, with my documents, ..., etc. I agree with Richard Stallman on this one:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.sta...
A properly-designed cloud computing solution is one where the virtual machines being hosted in the cloud can be fully encrypted so that the hosting provider cannot (feasibly) glean any information from them.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (like Fedora) supports full-disk encryption with LUKS, making it a perfect solution for a cloud-based system.
So with an encrypted system, all you're renting is time on someone else's host, while all of your data remains private to you. Sounds good to me!
Stephen Gallagher RHCE 804006346421761
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Keywords: properly designed :)
But you are still succeptible to a third party[even though the files could be crypted and apparently not seen, that might not be the case] and you can't be 100% safe.
Don't get me wrong, the techonology is there to do this, but like Mr. Stallman says, then we will be at the mercy of the "Cloud"
Regards,
Antonio