TechSNAP

The Cloud Fails (1x2)

: 25, 2011

Reality rained on Amazon’s Cloud recently as aspects of their EC2 hosting service suffered major outages. We look at the many issues facing cloud computing. Plus we dig into the iPhone location tracking story, and brainstorm a few possible solutions to a potentially necessary evil. Then we’ll look at How HBGary wrote backdoors for the government, and exactly how the recent RSA security hack actually happened, and why it’s still a major issue!