Companies moving data operations to thwart NSA is a marketing ploy - NSA can hack global databases

02/24/2014 - 00:00

  By <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/Author/2646">Jack Clark</a> - <br><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/richard_clarke_csa_comments/">A former White House security advisor has suggested that you, dear reader, are naive if you think hosting data outside of the US will protect a business from the NSA.<br><br>"NSA and any other world-class intelligence agency can hack into databases even if they not in the US," said former White House security advisor Richard Clarke in a speech at the</a> <a href="https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/events/csa-summit-2014/">Cloud Security Alliance</a> <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/richard_clarke_csa_comments/">summit in San Francisco on Monday. "Non-US companies are using NSA revelations as a marketing tool."<br></a><br><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/24/richard_clarke_csa_comments/">READ MORE ON THE REGISTER</a>