"ASPs are not the only entities under the authority of the law. Do you share the same fear with your banking institution, for if served with a Federal subpeona, they must produce."
Whether the threats that I have implied are real or imagined, likely or unlikely, what I said about enterprise aversions to this form of computing remains true. It's interesting that you should pick banking as an example, although you probably could have picked a better one to make your point. It's this sector, banking, specifically, whose internal audit controls would prohibit the mounting of their telecommuters' data on foreign servers, unless firewalling and encryption measures were used.
Since many telecommuters tend to use the same machines for work as they do for play, I could see this leading to split modes of computing for them if they chose to go with the service provider's thin client approach, in addition to the mode which was imposed by the employer.
With the number of work-at-homes climbing daily, this factor must be taken into account, woudn't you say?
I don't mean to be putting a damper on the concept, rather, I am merely adding my contribution to the brainstorming here.
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ps - I should really learn how to read all the messages first. I just went back and read your 40 bit encryption post. Oh, well... |
