Posts by John Haskins

It's Wikipedia mythbuster time: 8 of the best on your 15th birthday

Why does TheReg get sooooo uptight about Wikipedia?

Can't you just appreciate the work put in by all the volunteers?

Revealed: Why Amazon, Netflix, Tinder, Airbnb and co plunged offline

Re: FDE wouldn't help against a hack

I agree ; however the reason why I want to use FDE is prevent other users from accessing data stored on my AWS virtual discs when they are not in use on one of my VMs.

Thanks for your input...

John

Re: Solution

My idea was to use FDE. The AWS VMs would be provided with a decryption key at boot time so thay can access data stored on the disc. The key would then be deleted

I was thinking of using EncFS. Why would this cause problems with Data Protection Act?

Please note I no longer live in the UK....

TIA

John

Re: Solution

If you strongly encrypted all the data stored on cloud drives would that solve the data security problem?

Assuming you could be certain you did not loose the encryption keys.....

Am I right in thinking only the US-East region was affected by these issues?

Very interested in folks comments....

John