ISRAEL JUST MADE A DEAL WITH Amazon and Google to store all ministries data in a “cloud.” 1, 2, 3
As an Enterprise Risk Management practitioner I am against commercial “cloud” storage, especially when the”cloud” is owned by someone else. The data in the cloud is at risk: the vendor could fail, the vendor’s security may be lax; the vendor may simply hold the data for ransom.
The REAL concern for this scrivener about Israel using any commercial “cloud” — but especially Google’s — is the number of anti-Israel employees at all levels at Google 4, 5, 6 — who might use their access to share Israel's data with others of their ilk?
ACCORDING TO NEWS stories,
- Israel has selected Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud as the winners of a $1 billion-plus project to deliver a public cloud infrastructure for the country’s government ministries and defense forces.
AWS and Google edged out IBM, Microsoft and Oracle in the bidding for the “Project Nimbus” contract and will develop cloud data center sites within Israel under an initial 4 billion-shekel investment -- the equivalent of $1.22 billion, Reuters reported today, citing an announcement from Israel’s finance ministry. The cloud sites will keep the government and military data within Israel’s borders to adhere to strict data security regulations, the report said. 1
Anti-Semite heads Diversity team
Google is the company that named Kamau Bobb, global lead for diversity strategy and research in 2018. Apparently Google failed to google it’s employee.
- Bobb wrote in a now-deleted 2007 blog post that if he were Jewish, he “would be concerned about my insatiable appetite for war and killing in defense of myself,” and referred to Jews’ “increasing insensitivity to the suffering (of) others.”7
According to a Google puff piece,
- "These writings are unquestionably hurtful. The author acknowledges this and has apologised. He will no longer be part of our diversity team... and will focus on his Stem [science, technology, engineering and maths] work.” 8
Secure data regs?
If U.S. government data on U.S. government computers can be hacked, imagine how easy it will be for someone from inside Google (or Amazon) to access Israeli data in the “cloud.”
Data security regulations are, as Napoleon is alleged to have said about treaties, “just a piece of paper.”
Who is going to enforce the regulations? Who will assure that the BDSers inside Google — and if news reports are true, there are several hundred BDSers at Google HQ alone 4, 5, 6 — abide by Israel's "strict data security regulations?”
Is anyone foolish enough to think that even in Israel there are no anti-Israel Jews (and non-Jews)?
Is Israel so technologically backward that it must job out “cloud” services to vendors over which it has little or no “absolute” control?
Once data is in the “cloud,” the data’s owner no longer has control of the data and who accesses the data, regardless of “ strict data security regulations”.
”Civilian” data also at risk
All Israeli adult citizens have a national ID number, similar to Social Security in the United States.
Almost everything an Israeli citizen does — buy a home, a car, get a loan, see a doctor, go to the hospital, go to school — is linked to that ID number.
Not only does the number identify an individual, it also identifies members of the person’s family: spouse, children.
How can I trust anyone with my data? I don’t.
Why should Israel trust anyone with its general information, let alone military secrets.
There are enough Israeli — Jewish and non-Jewish — “Kim” Philby’s 9 who gladly will steal and share state (and personal) secrets for money or belief that making it easier to access by renting space from Google, in particular, borders not only on “foolish,” but, IMO, “unmitigated stupidity.”
Call me paranoid, but as an Enterprise Risk Management practitioner, I don’t trust “clouds.” If I cannot control access to my data, that data won’t be mine for long.
Final thought We all learned in elementary school that clouds are water vapor. Water is sent heavenward by heat (evaporation). What goes up, must come down. Where is goes up and where it comes down may be distant from one another.
Likewise data to the cloud.
I send data to the cloud and someone else — perhaps someone who should not have access to my data — beings it down.
A cloud is permeable; it leaks.
That’s not a good thing for secrets.
Sources
1. CRN: https://tinyurl.com/b2z4ceey **
2. Globes: https://tinyurl.com/9jjakx
3. Cloudtech: https://tinyurl.com/3sv46fwp
4. The Verge: https://tinyurl.com/yye35ss5
5. Israel HaYom: https://tinyurl.com/pcrxmu8k
6. DCD: https://tinyurl.com/34dwcud3
7. Forbes: https://tinyurl.com/vfs3cs
8. BBC: https://tinyurl.com/74xzp9et
9. "Kim" Philby: https://tinyurl.com/53r2wajh
PLAGIARISM is the act of appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts or passages of his writings, or the ideas or language of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.
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