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Patriot Act Clouds Picture For Tech
Harperdog writes "Politico has a piece on how the Patriot Act is interfering with U.S. firms trying to do business overseas in the area of cloud computing. Here's a quote: 'The Sept. 11-era law was supposed to help the intelligence community gather data on suspected terrorists. But competitors overseas are using it as a way to discourage foreign countries from signing on with U.S. cloud computing providers like Google and Microsoft: Put your data on a U.S.-based cloud, they warn, and you may just put it in the hands of the U.S. government.'"
Awesome. It's like tethering. A completely invented feature created by taking something away that wasn't missing in the first place. The people who think these things up have imaginations worthy of Iain M Banks or almost even Iain Banks. .
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How is remotely accessing a hard drive on your home computer in any way, shape or form like tethering? Did you not look at the product that was linked or do you have no clue what tethering is?
And what do think think has been taken away? It's an external hard drive that has all the functionality of an external hard drive. It includes some software to make it easier to set it up for remote access from other PCs, your phone, etc., but that adds functionality, it doesn't decrease it. What do you think is missing?