Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? (helpnetsecurity.com)

An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes an article by Help Net Security's editor-in-chief: More than one in three IT pros believe cloud providers should turn over encrypted data to the government when asked, according to Bitglass and the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). 35 percent believe cloud app vendors should be forced to provide government access to encrypted data while 55 percent are opposed. 64 percent of US-based infosec professionals are opposed to government cooperation, compared to only 42 percent of EMEA respondents.
Raj Samani, CTO EMEA at Intel Security, told Help Net Security the answers ranged from "no way, to help yourself, and even to I don't care..." But since vendors can't satisfy both camps, he believes the situation "demands some form of open debate on the best approach to take..."

Comments

"more than one in three IT pros"

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Is it legal in the US to ask the question of job candidates, "Do you believe that the government should be required to hand over cloud data to the government without a warrant targetted to a particular individual?" I would ask this and reject anyone who said 'yes'.

2) Which immediately shows that the question is annoyingly ambiguous because it doesn't specify whether this is fishing expedition type access or targetted warranted access, so the survey results are meaningless.

In particular, it might be that e.g. German respondents with their strong privacy laws assumed it was only referring to access with a warrant.

Re:Turn over: yes. Decrypt: no

[roman_mir]

Turn over: no. Decrypt: no. Fixed that for you. Nobody should turn anything over to any government. Government is the enemy of the people, you all should learn this simple fact.