<blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">not going to risk my competitor getting their hands on it to save a<br>
few bucks on data storage. I'm just not comfortable storing anything<br>
sensitive on a computer owned by some other random person.<br></blockquote><div><br>Agreed - I think more of the concept would be a scenario where a business has 5 or 6 sites -> and the data-transfer is shared... OR the businesses are sharing the costs of dedicated hosting in a secure facility and there is a single "proprietor" (3rd party) with access to the physical facility.<br>
<br>Downloading would be secured on a per-user basis.<br><br>Although you could just avoid putting Trade-Secrets on the "shared drive". (harder said than done)<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ben Rousch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brousch@gmail.com">brousch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, john-thomas richards <<a href="mailto:jtr@jrichards.org">jtr@jrichards.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I can see this working if a business offers this as a service. The<br>
> service would be connecting multiple companies to store one another's<br>
> data in this manner. No business would know whose data is being stored<br>
> on their servers. What is needed is that middleman to coordinate. The<br>
> more companies that sign up the more seeds would participate. That<br>
> sounds reasonable to me since the each company would get something in<br>
> return—sort of a you-scratch-my-back-i'll-scratch-yours approach, only<br>
> each company pays to scratch and be scratched. Or something.<br>
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</div>I rate myself about a 7 out of 10 on the paranoid-o-meter, and I would<br>
not use this service. Once someone has my business data, they can do<br>
whatever they want with it. Even if they can't decrypt it now, due to<br>
Moore's Law they will probably be able to five years from now on their<br>
Nexus X smart phone. If my business has any sort of trade secret, I'm<br>
not going to risk my competitor getting their hands on it to save a<br>
few bucks on data storage. I'm just not comfortable storing anything<br>
sensitive on a computer owned by some other random person.<br>
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