This post was written by John Heckman: "The Arizona bar has released the first ethics opinion about the propriety of online storage. Read the article here
The key provisions are:
"First, the client files would be accessible only through a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) server, which encodes documents, making it difficult for third parties to intercept or read them. Second, the lawyer would assign unique randomly generated alpha-numeric names and passwords to each online client folder. The folder names contain no information that could identify the client to which it belongs. The password would not be the same as the client folder name. Third, all online client files would be converted to Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) files and protected with another randomly generated unique alpha-numeric password."
The password provision amounts to saying that on-line storage is completely unrealistic..."
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Source: Does It Compute?, 25 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.
