Computing in the Cloud – Security and risk in the cloud

How does the move to centralized services affect the security and reliability of users’ interactions with technology? What new threats are likely to emerge? How might provider behavior, user behavior, or government policy need to change in response to those threats? How does the “open source” ethos work in a cloud computing environment? Moderator: Alex Halderman, CITP Marc Hedlund, founder and chief product officer, Wesabe.com Mihai Christodorescu (home page), researcher at IBM TJ Watson Research Center Benjamin Mako Hill — researcher at MIT Media Lab and Free Software Foundation