While I might be be a bit naive, and while the Queensland government appears to be trapped in some kind of ideological singularity, but I couldn't imaging they would accept their mail being on international servers, or probably even interstate. Would they?
On 1 June 2013 09:54, Tom Worthington <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31/05/13 11:14, Jan Whitaker wrote: > > > I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on a proper risk assessment ... > > If the Queensland government moved its IT to a smaller number of > consolidated servers, that would be fine. They would need several > locations, for redundancy. It would much simpler if these were in > Queensland, so that they were subject to local law and the service can't > be interrupted by loss of a international link. > > Most savings would come from replacing the servers in smaller agencies. > It does not much matter if the service is run by the government or a > contracted company. This could be a traditional computer bureau service, > having it in "the cloud" would provide few benefits. > > What would be a worry is if the servers were in another country, with > different laws and on the end of a link which could be severed. It must > be assumed that the intelligence agencies of that nation would have > access to the data and would pass anything relevant on to their > corporations, for example when negotiating mining leases with the > Queensland government. > > > -- > Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 > PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au > Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards > Legislation > > Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, > Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
