The big spy news in America must have put a spell on some people. At least that is how I would like to account for the comment on The Register story

Maybe these findings were written by an American, for Americans have little to fear. It’s the rest us the world that stands to lose.

The comment centers around the idea that a UK company that hosts in the cloud may have their data end up in the US and that will expose it to the risk of spying.

World+kitten knows damn well that the EU->US bank account data suck has sod all to do with terrorism, and rather more to do with keeping an eye on the competition. It is also public knowledge that various British agencies were involved in snooping on Airbus, with the info gleaned being passed right on to Boeing. The American government is using tactics from spying to bullying to downright theft to prop up its ailing businesses.

Boeing is American. The British spied on Airbus for an American company? I don’t follow the logic but then again this is just a short comment on a story called “The cloud’s impact on security?”. I also don’t follow why the title of the story has a question mark. It could have been “The cloud’s impact on security.”

Anyway, while there is likely to be an international component to the risk of cloud it really is not at all different for companies like Airbus or Boeing. They already have data moving between nations and handled by third-parties and are well aware of the dangers of competition and spies. Take for example that Airbus has a page called “A truly global network” where they boast about their global reach for production and support facilities.