This fear of US cloud service was deployed against US crypto back then. Exemplified in the CryptoAG revelation. Then it was "revealed," as now, the competitors were even more devious. Meanwhile all of the spies and contractors got more funding to spy on each other and PR the mil-grade security, backslapping at how easy it was to spook the public, you know, spook as in spy on to assure freaking was effective. In 2000 it was "revealed" that CIA and NSA with the joint Special Collection Service, were running eavesdropping and burgling ops out of US embassies and at home from suburban Maryland and now, holy shit, it is "revealed" that PRISM and XKeyscore does that cyberwarly with browsers. You know, too, revealed as in leaked most industriously by a Special Distribution Service, another codeword for smoking the cloud, why even the CIA uses vaporware. Guardian is a fine mouthpiece for Official Secrets freaking. At 10:11 AM 8/9/2013, you wrote:

<http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/nsa-revelations-fears-cloud-computing?CMP=twt_fd&CMP=SOCxx2I2>http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/08/nsa-revelations-fears-cloud-computing?CMP=twt_fd&CMP=SOCxx2I2

-- Neil Johnson