Re: Megaupload.com seized

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 01/21/2012 11:38 AM, George Bonser wrote:
> Entire governments in the US are using "cloud storage" for their documentation these days.  It is my understanding (which is hearsay) 
> that Google has an entire service aimed at small governments (county and municipal mostly) in Google Docs for just this purpose and I know of at 
> least one city on California that is using Google for their document repository and their city email.  In case of an emergency where Google is 
> unreachable, they are in a world of hurt and won't even be able to send email from one department to another in city hall because all their 
> mail and documents are now "in the cloud" which would then be inaccessible to them rather than on a server in their local data center. 
>  So ... and Earthquake in Santa Clara county might take out city governments in Monterey or Santa Cruz counties which might otherwise be 
> perfectly able to conduct their business.

Sure, but balance that with podunk.usa's possibly incompetent IT staff? It costs
a lot of money to run a state of the art shop, but only incrementally more as
you add more and more instances of essentially identical shops. I guess I have
more trust that Google is going to get the redundancy, etc right than your average
IT operation.

Now whether you should *trust* Google with all of that information from a
security standpoint is another kettle of fish.

Mike