On 6/7/06, Steven H. McCown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
However, the offline portion of MIS is offline. The online portion is fairly well secure. I don't trust my local scoutmaster or (sorry) the OSS community to make that assertion. PHP is about as secure as IE on a bad day...
There's no reason the OSS community couldn't make an app as secure as the online portion of MIS, or better even. Out of PHP or any other programming language. Especially with the help of security professionals such as yourself ;-)
The distinction here is that MIS does not have personal information about likes, hobbies, awards, projects, etc. An online scouting tracking program would have more similarities with "myspace.com" than with the MIS. That's a huge distinction.
There's no reason that the default availability of anyone's information would have to be public like myspace. I think your concerns are vitally important to keep in mind, but the attitude of "it can't be done" is not one that will get us anywhere. We would be far from first to put anybody's personal information online, and as long as we don't carry it all around unencrypted on laptops we'll be doing much better than these: http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10&as_scoring=r&hl=en&hs=ugd&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&ct=title&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=laptop+stolen&btnG=Search+News :-) Bryan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
