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"The Library of Congress recently decided to begin cataloging all publicly available tweets." discoverable. Many criminals who learn about the secrets these new technologies reveal might avoid their use as well. THE CLOUD IS A GAME-CHANGER Cloud technology clearly appears to be the next "big thing," and although not universally defined, it is based on the following characteristics: • On-demand self-service • Ubiquitous network access • Location-independent resource pooling • Rapid elasticity • Pay-per-use The "cloud" can be: • Private (internal, meaning it is enterprise-owned or -leased, behind a firewall) • Public (external, sold to the public) • A Hybrid (comprising two or more cloud types) 36 Tech Potpourri ILTA White Paper • Community-Based (indicating a shared infrastructure or specific community, academic clouds) , There are obvious and more subtle pros and cons to cloud technology as it applies to litigation support. When a law firm utilizes a cloud to upload and archive information for use in cases, the benefits are most welcome: • Almost limitless storage space measured in petabytes • Centralized data allowing forensic readiness to provide quicker coordinated responses • The ability to build a dedicated forensic server to use when needed • Built-in hash authentication for disk images (to eliminate the need for time-consuming MD5 checksums) • An ability to better design and control logging activities. e.g.