On Friday 29 January 2010 23:59:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I don't think his objections are just related to public vs private. As > > Neil said, there's the security problem to begin with, where one large > > government data centre has more data to compromise that a small one... > > On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots > posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There > again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this, > and people are daft enough to do it, they would have real trouble > understanding the concept of central storage :( >
You seem to grossly under-estimate the ability of the average idiot. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
