Eric, I understand, A lot of universities also train future black and white hat hackers. I have had friends the University did not know if they should expel them for breaching security or award them the highest honours for cracking security systems. The same conservatism is also for many corporate, all too commonly security is the proverbial "tail wagging the dog". To me quality security is possible that does not limit capacity, creativity and the core business but that needs too much enlightened management and specialists than most organisations have.
In such cases it is important to put the issues in context, that is what I hoped to do with my post. - Single File wikis can be considered documents - They have the added security that modern browsers enforce on them unless you use other savers and utilities - TiddlyWiki like any document lives at the end of a file or URL, if someone does not have access they will never find it - Like any other document and website, if you can read it you can steel it I agree you should seek support, but sometimes it is best to prepare for a discussion but "don't stick your head above the parapet" and do "guerilla" IT if you know you are in an organisation with unenlightened IT policies or uninformed closed minds. We each have to decide the risks we may take. Regards Tony On Sunday, June 21, 2020 at 10:49:46 AM UTC+10, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 4:46:46 PM UTC-7, TW Tones wrote: >> >> This is actual quite a big subject, I would be happy to look at this with >> you at length. Let me however make a few points that may lead you to a >> solution first. >> > > Your points are all valid. However, the specific problem here is the > organizational culture. University IT departments tend to be very > inflexible and overly cautious about the technology that they allow. They > are extremely defensive about their control of the IT environment (even > more so than in the corporate business world). My sister is a professor > (University of Virginia, as well as several online institutions of higher > learning), and she faces this issue all the time. > > Perhaps it is because the IT folks are working with a combination of > non-technical educators that can easily screw up their systems, as well as > highly-technical educators that often know more about the technology than > they do. In either case, their jobs are hanging by a thread and it takes a > VERY long time (months or even years!) to get even the most simple IT > changes approved and implemented. Trying to convince the IT department to > add more security technologies won't work because the problem isn't > technical... it's social. The only hope is to find a senior IT person who > is secure enough in their position, and has enough power in the > organization to be willing to entertain new possibilities and procedures. > > -e > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fc7dcd3a-dbb2-4f80-8899-0b339b513ca8o%40googlegroups.com.
