Privacy-by-design cloud computing through decentralization and real life trust

Existing Cloud services suffer from several weaknesses regarding privacy and security [1]. A preliminary analysis shows that they are subject to a number of vulnerabilities ranging from insecure interfaces to insecure Hypervisors [2]. Starting from these vulnerabilities as the first step of a broader research activity, we came up with a new approach that is very promising in re-visiting security and privacy problems in Cloud based systems.