Slashdot Mirror
When Data Goes Missing Will You Even Know?
Lam1969 writes "Jack Gold says IT shops may have a huge problem on their hands, and probably don't know even know about it. The problem is USB flash drives, which he predicts will probably reach 10 GB in capacity in three years, and the lack of policies to guide use of them by employees. From the article: 'With more and more employees using flash drives, smart phones with Secure Digital memory cards, portable hard drives, etc., the likelihood of companies actually knowing about all instances of data loss is declining rapidly. And as a result, the possibility of companies breaking laws, whether for data-loss disclosure or regulatory compliance, is growing dramatically.' Gold predicts 'at least one publicized major case of unencrypted data loss from a portable device' in the next year, which will result in many companies banning these kinds of devices."
Dang, that reminds me, I need to figure out where my USB flash drive is....
What about the rest of your body?
And in Soviet Russia...
When you go missing, will your data even know?
My personal hacker (12 years old, immune from prosecution) just duplicated your key-fob's ID. What are you going to do about it?
Check - and Mate!
Been there, done that, paid for the T-shirt
and didn't get it
No one is gonna stop us from taking pictures of our computer screens with little East German cameras! Old school style!
Hmm, interesting. I've always used my USB flash drive for sharing and copying music from major record labels; maybe I should pick up another one.
keywords: P2P music napster free music
Am I the only one here think thinks it might be kind of cool to work in a paranoid place requires you to check cell phones at the door? Now if only they could eliminate my pesky desk phone and email (um, in the name of security leaks, of course) I might actually have time to productive!
Would anybody beleive me if I made the case that status meetings and rambling, pointless telecons with 3rd parties are risky security leaks too?
The higher level supervising program went to consult one of its own look-up tables to find out what the low level supervising program was meant to be supervising.
It couldn't find the look-up table.
Odd.
It looked again. All it got was an error message. It tried to look up the error message in its error message look-up table and couldn't find that either. It allowed a couple of nanoseconds to go by while it went through all this again. Then it woke up its sector function supervisor.
The sector function supervisor hit immediate problems. It called its supervising agent which hit problems too. Within a few millionths of a second virtual circuits that had lain dormant, some for years, some for centuries, were flaring into life throughout the ship. Something, somewhere, had gone terribly wrong, but none of the supervising programs could tell what it was. At every level, vital instructions were missing, and the instructions about what to do in the event of discovering that vital instructions were missing, were also missing.
Yep. It's in Genesis. Something about a bloody great boat.
What worries me is how far the lesson has been taken. What happens if Him Upstairs has full backups? What if he decides he doesn't like the direction things are going and rolls back to an earlier saved state? How would we ever know if he did?
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Deja vu...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Earth From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Revision history Jump to: navigation, search (Latest | Earliest) View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500). Legend: (cur) = difference with current version, (last) = difference with preceding version, m = minor edit * (cur) (last) 15:54, 24 January 2006 god01 (reverted vandalism from satan666) * (cur) (last) 15:53, 24 January 2006 satan666 (c'mon let's be mature) * (cur) (last) 09:36, 24 January 2006 god01 (rv edit by satan666) * (cur) (last) 09:33, 24 January 2006 satan666 (pestilence) * (cur) (last) 01:03, 24 January 2006 god01 m (Reverted edits by satan666 (talk) to last version by god01) * (cur) (last) 01:03, 24 January 2006 satan666 (famine)