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Re: How secure is Apple's iCloud?
From: Tim Doty <tdoty () MST EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:21:28 -0500
On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 06:32 -0700, McClenon, Braden wrote:
I think the only real solution here, unfortunately, is user education against putting PII information up in “the cloud” unless your institution sanctions a particular service. There are so many different “cloud storage” offerings (Amazon, Microsoft Live, Google… to name a few) that trying to keep up with their terms of service and security measures is going to be a big game of “wack-a-mole.”
or, if it must live in "the cloud" for some reason then provide your own encryption -- for example, store a truecrypt volume on the service and put the files with PII in the truecrypt volume. Avoids trust issues with vendors (dropbox...) Tim Doty
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