And it's a big one. I've spent the better part
of 30 years working administrative applications in
IT. Every time you change from, say, one
accounting system to another, the problem of how
to preserve and be able to look at meaningfully
old data become significant. Yes, you can have
backup takes and disks running out your ears:
but you also have to have the formats for this
data, you have to have all the progrmas which
accessed and massaged this data, you probably
have to have the OS these programs ran on, and
you have to have the compiler(s) used in the
old system. Sounds pretty daunting, doesn't it.
Or you can convert all the old data from old
system(s) to new one. Do you know how much
resources management will allot to that?
But all of a sudden, someone has written an
article about it, so it's a hot topic again.
Sigh... there's nothing new...
MK
We lost the privacy war years ago. There is no
- I repeat no - privacy on the web. So get over
it.
If you want privacy, do these things: don't give
your ssn to anyone except irs and ssa for any
reason; stay off the web; get an anonymous cell
phone and cancel your landline phone; don't use
credit or debit cards, pay all your bills in cash;
have all your mail delivered to a po box. Don't
tell anyone where you live and have at least one
ghost address. And most importantly, read JJ Luna's book on the subject of privacy.
If passwords where hashed and then encrypted BEFORE entry into a password file/table, there'd be no problems about stolen passwords. Esp. if the hashing and encryption are one-way only.
But that's too simple.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, gee ... if Linux went away, there'd still
be unix ... both of them "free" (you get what you
pay for).
And it's a big one. I've spent the better part of 30 years working administrative applications in IT. Every time you change from, say, one accounting system to another, the problem of how to preserve and be able to look at meaningfully old data become significant. Yes, you can have backup takes and disks running out your ears: but you also have to have the formats for this data, you have to have all the progrmas which accessed and massaged this data, you probably have to have the OS these programs ran on, and you have to have the compiler(s) used in the old system. Sounds pretty daunting, doesn't it. Or you can convert all the old data from old system(s) to new one. Do you know how much resources management will allot to that? But all of a sudden, someone has written an article about it, so it's a hot topic again. Sigh ... there's nothing new ...
MK
We lost the privacy war years ago. There is no - I repeat no - privacy on the web. So get over it. If you want privacy, do these things: don't give your ssn to anyone except irs and ssa for any reason; stay off the web; get an anonymous cell phone and cancel your landline phone; don't use credit or debit cards, pay all your bills in cash; have all your mail delivered to a po box. Don't tell anyone where you live and have at least one ghost address. And most importantly, read JJ Luna's book on the subject of privacy.
If passwords where hashed and then encrypted BEFORE entry into a password file/table, there'd be no problems about stolen passwords. Esp. if the hashing and encryption are one-way only. But that's too simple.