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On Friday 29 January 2010 23:59:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > I don't think his objections are just related to public vs private. As |
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> > Neil said, there's the security problem to begin with, where one large |
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> > government data centre has more data to compromise that a small one... |
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> On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots |
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> posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There |
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> again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this, |
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> and people are daft enough to do it, they would have real trouble |
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> understanding the concept of central storage :( |
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You seem to grossly under-estimate the ability of the average idiot. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |