• 1 Could we have anticipated this?
• 2 Security is a trust based affair
• 3 Cloud considerations
• 4 Privacy and encryption
• 5 Conclusion

Every day new information emerges on the extension of NSA’s PRISMprogram. We discovered that e-mail, phone calls, services, even conference systems have been cracked and gone under illegal surveillance. We also learned that the NSA paid US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, AOLto allow this and when this was not possible resources were brutally hacked.