If your company is asking you to do use some other Wiki, does that mean that they expect it to be used in collaboration with others?
If so, then they may have a point. Collaboration is a bit weak in TW, to put it mildly. If you carry your TW home on a flash drive or lap top, then there is a danger of the data being exposed -- just as with any other document. Even brand-new laptops come with all sorts of 3rd party stuff these days, and it doesn't seem that manufacturers vet the software thoroughly. USB drives can be lost, or left behind at business meetings. TW does have an encryption capability, which might add some peace of mind. You might find out if your company's default wiki product is using encryption. Mark On Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:55:00 PM UTC-7, Stephen Kimmel wrote: > > I work for an engineering company and TiddlyWiki is something I use almost > constantly. My company, however, would rather that I use another wiki > program that is part of an integrated package. Without going into too much > detail, the words that immediately come to mind when describing that > program are "useless" and "vile." Although they've never prohibited me from > using TiddlyWiki, they have raised questions that I can't easily answer > such as "How secure is our corporate data?" and "How do you know it isn't > transmitting data outside the company?" and finally "How do you know it > won't damage the data on our network?" > > My first reaction is to discount this as paranoia but I don't know the > inner workings of TiddlyWiki well enough to know it isn't doing those > things and I'm not sure anyone but Jeremy (and perhaps Eric) do know. I'm > more worried about Google making copies of my data than I am Jeremy doing > it. Still Firefox and most modern browsers have gone out of their way to > prevent applications like TiddlyWiki from working. On a separate but > related note, one of the math routines developed for TiddlyWiki used a > separate math package to avoid using the "dangerous" javascript eval > function. Could some malicious bastard create a plugin that could actually > damage our computers or our data outside the Wiki? > > Does anyone know? > -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/31448fe2-9737-4a91-b2a4-6766c136bb01%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
