--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
From: Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
Subject: Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...
To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 8:16 AM
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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....
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!
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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