Cubby is built on LogMeIn's own cloud data sync and storage service - not hosted on a third party cloud data platform - and takes advantage of the same online-banking-level encryption capabilities used in LogMeIn's connectivity offerings (like LogMeIn Free and Pro, LogMeIn Rescue and join.me).
After the experiment in the Cambridge cafe, the owners switched to a higher level of encryption for their network, making it impossible to use Firesheep.
"Today, we don't have the level of encryption that we would need to take (a phone) overseas and fully integrate it into our mission-command systems, " Mazzanti said.
What about requiring every third-party service provider to protect personal customer data through encryption, tokenization or another advanced security technology, through clauses written into and enforced as part of standard service level agreements?