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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of The Fool
....
> So what happens when lightning strikes your telephone line, fries your
> UPS, fries your surge protector, fries your computer, and the raid array?
>
> Or a fire?
>
> The _ONLY_ answer is off site hard-copy backups, (cd, tape, etc.)
That's why I burn CDs periodically. But the question was about hard drive
failures. Your off-site backup won't work if nuclear war breaks out or the
sun explodes. I'm assuming that Kevin knows that his house might be struck
by lightning or burn down. If he didn't, we probably can't help him this
way.
Besides, where I live, lightning is less of an issue than things like
brown-outs. Which is why I have line conditioners *and* UPSes. And the
phone lines pass through surge suppressors.
And we didn't even touch on one of the most common reasons for data loss at
home -- children. I have stories.
...
> > Now, having said all that, I'll add that if you're the NSA, you can
> probably
> > crack anything...
>
> Nope. ROTFLMAOALALALALALAL.
>
> http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/
There's no need to be pedantic. I'm quite sure that neither of us really
knows what capabilities are available at Ft. Meade... although I suspect I
know rather more than you do. More to the point, the NSA is very likely to
be able to crack the passwords in Kevin's machine. Even more to the point,
what seems unbreakable today often isn't tomorrow.
And the following bears repeating: The Windows registry is an abomination.
Nick
