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PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies PRISM Lessons On Privacy, Cloud and US IT Companies By Antonio Ieranò Contents [hide] 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 PRISM program. 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, AOL to allow this and when this was not possible resources were brutally hacked. From a security point of view, a discussion on whether the reasons that moved…