Re: How secure is Apple's iCloud?

[Tim Doty <tdoty () MST EDU>]

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