The Register®  Original URL:    By Trevor Pott  Posted in Cloud,
8th June 2013 11:59 GMT             Liberty versus freedom
Some things are worth dying for       When a country goes off
the rails, why should we trust its computing systems?   As the
US has spent the past 30 years going completely off the rails
we've spent that same time becoming absolutely addicted to the
technology and services it produces. So deeply embedded are we
that disentangling ourselves from American technology providers,
cloud vendors and what-have-you is a process of years, even
decades.  While undertaking this difficult, painful and
expensive task may not be absolutely required for pragmatic
business reasons, I argue that it is a moral and ethical
obligation we collectively bear to defend that which we believe.
We could simply remain apathetic and allow privacy to evaporate
as our laws are synchronized with those of the US, but is that
what we want to have occur?  No terrorist actions, war, trade
sanctions, international