Posts by JimiQ

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Posted Tuesday 11th January 2011 15:14 GMT

from They Live.

DARPA seeks orbital wheely-bin plan

Son of Star Wars

Can't the US use their "proven" anti-ICBM technology, or are theroetical smithereens also dangerous to orbiting platforms?

Brown says the 'C' word

The 'c' word indeed

Cut (or rather 'kut') is actually the Dutch word for the English 'c' word...

There’s no escaping the cloud

Taking proper care of the data

Is there not a presumption to use strong encryption between the user and the data centre? Can the encryption not be maintained on the stored data? Certain confidential data will require appropriate encryption as a matter of course anyway. (When I say encryption, I actually mean a complete security policy including encryption, access control, authentication, backup, blah)

I still think the weakest points will be the employees and business partners themselves in casual exchange of confidential data.

There is an argument that a dedicated secure data centre can do a better job than a small company trying to build their own data centre on the cheap. By analogy, my money is probably safer in the bank than in my mattress, despite recent best efforts by the banking sector.