[GRLUG] "real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ; ) "

[Ben DeMott]

>
> not going to risk my competitor getting their hands on it to save a
> few bucks on data storage. I'm just not comfortable storing anything
> sensitive on a computer owned by some other random person.
>

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.

Downloading would be secured on a per-user basis.

Although you could just avoid putting Trade-Secrets on the "shared drive".
(harder said than done)

On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > I can see this working if a business offers this as a service.  The
> > service would be connecting multiple companies to store one another's
> > data in this manner.  No business would know whose data is being stored
> > on their servers.  What is needed is that middleman to coordinate.  The
> > more companies that sign up the more seeds would participate.  That
> > sounds reasonable to me since the each company would get something in
> > return—sort of a you-scratch-my-back-i'll-scratch-yours approach, only
> > each company pays to scratch and be scratched.  Or something.
>
> I rate myself about a 7 out of 10 on the paranoid-o-meter, and I would
> not use this service. Once someone has my business data, they can do
> whatever they want with it. Even if they can't decrypt it now, due to
> Moore's Law they will probably be able to five years from now on their
> Nexus X smart phone. If my business has any sort of trade secret, I'm
> not going to risk my competitor getting their hands on it to save a
> few bucks on data storage. I'm just not comfortable storing anything
> sensitive on a computer owned by some other random person.
>
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>  Ben Rousch
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