On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:41:12PM +0100, Ian G wrote: | | The difficulty here is that there is what we might call | the Choicepoint syndrome and then there is the | specific facts about the actual Choicepoint heist. | When I say Choicepoint I mean the former, and the | great long list of similar failures as posted last week.
Poor form there. | No it's not rocket science - it's economic science. | It makes no difference in whether the business is | small or large - it is simply a question of costs. If | it costs money to do it then it has to deliver a | reward. | | In the case of the backup tapes there was no reward | to be enjoyed. So they could never justify encrypting | them if it were to cost any money. Now, in an unusual Actually, that's not true. Over 10 years ago, I wrote a small script that took data very much like this, encrypted it, verified the output looked like PGP encrypted data, and copied it to a public ftp site so that a partner could pick it up. That saved a lot over tape, and reduced manual steps which introduced errors. Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]