272 ◾ Global Information Warfare: The New Digital Battleeld
One outcome of these breaches has been that the trust that is essential for
organizations to use cloud computing is being eroded. According to a report in
Computing, Dr. Kevin Curran, a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), stated that
Transparency will be listed on the front page of many cloud services due
to the appalling manner in which the NSA has treated the US-based
large cloud providers. Trust has gone for now in US cloud providers. It
will be some time before it will return.
In the current world, where the Internet does not recognize national boundaries
and where data is often stored overseas, the eect of these hacks and government ...