I did. Perhaps mine sounded a bit *too* prerecorded, because they wouldn't stay on very long. A generic one that just looped through "Yes"...."Uh-huh"..."okay"...."muted grunt." seemed to work much better. Especially if there were longer pauses.
Sad part - is how bored was I one weekend to do such a project is another discussion.
" good coding practices make the necessity of a separate firewall basically moot."
Well, I **MIGHT** go so far as accepting *perfect* coding might mitigate the need for a firewall, but never never never that a firewall is not needed.
If you say you are a good coder, fine - I can go along with that. I am an excellent system engineer type - your code is only as good as the server I build for you. that firewall protects us both from 'accidental' misconfigs (we are human after all) and future exploits derived by a million script kiddies banging away at a million keyboards to eventually produce all the works of evil worm-coders everywhere.
Have had emails (with attachments) stored in hotmail, some for about 8 years now. Resumes, pdf files, serial numbers, etc etc. So a pretty good variety of attachment types. All still there...just waiting for that dire emergency where I will say "gee, glad I had those online somewhere"
Now, should they delete them - fine - I have backups. That I actually check. With more than one for the really important stuff.
Which begs the question - **WHY** would you store really important stuff on hotmail anyway, that you might need long term ? tsk tsk tsk. Relying solely on one point of storage for important data, especially when you have zero control on what happens to it. BTDT, TESTED backups are your friend.
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I did. Perhaps mine sounded a bit *too* prerecorded, because they wouldn't stay on very long. A generic one that just looped through "Yes"...."Uh-huh"..."okay"...."muted grunt." seemed to work much better. Especially if there were longer pauses. Sad part - is how bored was I one weekend to do such a project is another discussion.
" good coding practices make the necessity of a separate firewall basically moot." Well, I **MIGHT** go so far as accepting *perfect* coding might mitigate the need for a firewall, but never never never that a firewall is not needed. If you say you are a good coder, fine - I can go along with that. I am an excellent system engineer type - your code is only as good as the server I build for you. that firewall protects us both from 'accidental' misconfigs (we are human after all) and future exploits derived by a million script kiddies banging away at a million keyboards to eventually produce all the works of evil worm-coders everywhere.
Have had emails (with attachments) stored in hotmail, some for about 8 years now. Resumes, pdf files, serial numbers, etc etc. So a pretty good variety of attachment types. All still there...just waiting for that dire emergency where I will say "gee, glad I had those online somewhere" Now, should they delete them - fine - I have backups. That I actually check. With more than one for the really important stuff. Which begs the question - **WHY** would you store really important stuff on hotmail anyway, that you might need long term ? tsk tsk tsk. Relying solely on one point of storage for important data, especially when you have zero control on what happens to it. BTDT, TESTED backups are your friend.