Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!balkan!crucible!al From: al@crucible.UUCP (Al Evans) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Safety Precautions (was Re: Musing on Constitutionality) Summary: Distribute your essential data Message-ID: <261@crucible.UUCP> Date: 12 Sep 90 15:03:20 GMT References: <3108@mindlink.UUCP> <56@hyprion.ddmi.com> Reply-To: al@crucible.UUCP (Al Evans) Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk Organization: PowerTools, Austin, TX Lines: 28 In article bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes: [with regard to a public-access unix system from which he derives his livelihood...] >Right now I don't know if a competitor or malicious person can create >an account, put some credit card numbers in a private file in that >account (or even just mail them to himself or perhaps to an account >that hasn't logged in recently, from some other phony account) and >call the SS to put me out of business (I assure you, carting my >systems away would send me downtown in one hour to just file Chapter >11 and throw in the towel, I can't imagine how I'd begin to cover >overhead in such a situation.) >Basically, the current situation sucks. And believe me, potential >investors are well aware of these risks from the government. Swell. You and I, and others in the same type of situation, probably should adopt the policy of keeping two full backups, one of which is stored quietly in a remote location. Replacement hardware is a lot easier to procure than replacement data:-) --Al Evans-- -- Al Evans -- uunet!execu!sequoia!crucible!al Though pride may be the most dangerous of sins, self-righteousness is surely the most obnoxious.