Re: Reactions to reported NSA PRISM program

[Jesse Thompson <jesse.thompson () DOIT WISC EDU>]

On 6/7/2013 8:02 AM, Kevin Halgren wrote:
> For those of you already using Google or Microsoft cloud e-mail
> solutions, I'll be curious to hear the reactions on your campuses to
> this news.
>
> I believe the tech companies are telling the truth when they say they
> don't provide direct backdoor access into their systems and that the
> PRISM presentation may overstate the cooperation and capabilities of the
> system, however that doesn't preclude the government from abusing
> existing systems and capabilities e.g. those under CALEA lawful
> intercept capabilities.

Ironically, a possible way for campuses to ensure the privacy of certain 
types of sensitive data might be to encourage the use of p2p 
technologies (e.g. BitTorrent Sync)