Cloud Storage Open To NSA Spying Says Apple Co-founderChris Dougherty I think most companies, just like Apple, start out young and idealistic, Wozniak said at the AWNA convention in San Francisco. But now all these companies are going to the cloud. And with the cloud you dont have any control. Technology companies are already on the defensive following other recent disclosures about NSA spying in the cloud. In November VirtualThreat reported that the NSA and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) had worked together to infiltrate data centers operated by Google and Yahoo. The spy agencies targeted information as it moved over fiber-optic connections between cloud storage centers. If you plan to upload your valuable data to a cloud storage provider, you need to NSA-Proof your data in advance by encrypting it with a FIPS 140-2 validated AES encryption routine. While not 100% guaranteed to stop government agency spies, it will definitely stop your average hacker. Chris Dougherty is a grey hat hacker and online security expert. Please visit his blog, www.VirtualThreat.com, for more excellent news and information about protecting yourself in cyberspace. 