Think your data is safe in an EU cloud? The NSA will raid your servers
A former White House security advisor has suggested that you, dear reader, are naive if you think hosting data outside of the US will protect a business from the NSA.
"NSA and any other world-class intelligence agency can hack into databases even if they not in the US," said former White House security advisor Richard Clarke in a speech at the Cloud Security Alliance summit in San Francisco on Monday. "Non-US companies are using NSA revelations as a marketing tool."
Clarke was also a member of the intelligence review group set up by President Obama in 2013 to scrutinize Uncle Sam's spying operations and come up with surveillance techniques that won't unnerve the entire world. He also served as a special advisor on cyber security for former US president George Bush.
