RE: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

[Chris Boyd <cboyd () gizmopartners com>]

On Fri, 2013-09-06 at 23:03 +0000, Paul Donner (pdonner) wrote:
> Great opportunity for a country like Brazil (for example) to become a
> place of business for many of these services which are subject to
> Calea (and such) in the US.  This type of behavior is certainly a
> motivator for folks in other countries to benefit, to our detriment.
>
> If the NSA is truly undermining the security of private enterprises
> which rely on compromised security implements, besides being counter
> productive, it will cost (maybe already has) in lost revenue or
> damages.  Sooner or later this is going to take its toll.  In the end
> the universal language of "cold hard cash" will reign.


You mean like this?

http://www.zdnet.com/u-s-cloud-industry-stands-to-lose-35-billion-amid-prism-fallout-7000018974/

As one currently working in the cloud this is deeply concerning.

--Chris