It is really useful for making remote and encrypted dbs, not to mention that you can safely store any data on Amazon EC2, compute on it, and only the producers

It is really useful for making remote and encrypted dbs, not to mention that you can safely store any data on Amazon EC2, compute on it, and only the producers and the consumers of the input/output will ever know the contents. I've blogged about it when it first became possible, in 2009: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/you-can-trust-your-data-to-the-cloud-in-theory/ http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/you-ca...