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Security expert and former nsa analyst, david kennedy. gentleman, thanks for being with me tonight. gentleman, ill begin with you. we always hear about the remote storage service, right, the cloud? everybody has it. so are we supposed to believe that the irs are the only kids on the block that didnt? >> whats intriguing about the irs is that theyre a 90,000-people organization, with an over $2 billion budget. so when you have that type of i.t. infrastructure, you have the ability to back things ...

Analyst, david kennedy. gentleman, thanks for being with me tonight. gentleman, ill begin with you. we always hear about the remote storage service, right, the cloud? everybody has it. so are we supposed to believe that the irs are the only kids on the block that didnt? >> whats intriguing about the irs is that theyre a 90,000-people organization, with an over $2 billion budget. so when you have that type of i.t. infrastructure, you have the ability to back things up in a way that you just dont ...

Security expert and former nsa analyst, david kennedy. gentleman, thanks for being with me tonight. gentleman, ill begin with you. we always hear about the remote storage service, right, the cloud? everybody has it. so are we supposed to believe that the irs are the only kids on the block that didnt? >> whats intriguing about the irs is that theyre a 90,000-people organization, with an over $2 billion budget. so when you have that type of i.t. infrastructure, you have the ability to back things ...

Theyre willing to fail at. grocery certainly comes up as one theyre going to continue to expand in. that comes with their own fleet of trucks. you start to wonder, logistically, will they start to say fedex and u.p.s., maybe well do a better job. so thats another area. but amazon web services, theyre taking a completely different direction. a business that started internally at amazon is the cloud. it is now running a lot of businesses around this country who rely on it. so one never knows. they...

Secondly what happened during the argument is aereos lawyer, david frederick, said the internet community was in his term freeblgd out by this case because of the potential effect on the cloud, about being able to store things on the cloud. what the lawyers for the broadcaster said is, yeah, but most things that people stick in the cloud, theyve already paid the copyright fee on, theyve created it themselves or downloaded it from someplace else like itunes, they paid the copy write fee. so the c...

Phones, even going into the fact that, for example, some of the stuff that may appear on a cell phone is actually not scored on the phone, it may be stored in the cloud, and they said thats another thing that makes a search of cell phones different. so for all those reasons they say the police need search warrants. its a real divided line here i think in the supreme courts approach. full recognition that the digital age is different, and it may be a real touchstone for future cases about the who...

Argued, that was not likely to happen. one of the goals here was to try to break the monopoly that cable companies have and try to get at sort of a new approach for delivering signals. the supreme court said thats not going to happen. the court rejected aereos claims that a defeat for them would doom the cloud, where people can remotely store things. the supreme court went out of its way today saying were not saying anything about that. the whole cloud thing is an entirely separate question. now...

Down. we go in, look attractive, they shoot at us, and if we survive, we get them. its a crazy job. a lot of fun though. the helicopter thing, that was an absolutelily miserable day. it was overcast, one hole in the cloud. you never, ever fly down through hole in the cloud because everybody shoots through it. but we had to do it because they told us saddam was trying to get away. i used up every piece of self-protection equipment that airplane had that day getting in and out of there. probably o...

Our rainbow in the cloud. [ applause ] >> maya angelou being remembered here at wake forest university, a place in which she was a professor and taught many students here, particularly in dance, some find it hard to believe while they remember her for all of her beautiful writings, i know why the caged bird since, her career started in dance. her good friend oprah winfrey. >> to president clinton and first lady michele obama, to guy johnson, colin, stephanie, the

Bill clinton earlier talking about the many messages he learned from maya angelou. most notably, that she helped impress upon him that life is about a constant change. lets list. in to alison williams. ♪ rainbow in the cloud ♪ in the cloud ♪ people could see his glory his love ♪ he did it for you an he did it for me ♪ ♪ oh, yes he did oh, he put the rainbow in the cloud ♪ >> a rainbow named dr. maya angelou. dr. maya angelou, you will always be here. our rainbow in the cloud.