On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:08 -0400, Eric Gerlach wrote: > Sure, your grandfather did it, but give any small-business owner > these two choices: > 1. Every day, bring this drive in, plug it in, run this program, > then take it home at night; or > 2. Pay Amazon $3/mo and don't worry about it; > and I bet over 80% of them choose #2. They'll say "The time it > takes me to do that for one week is worth more than $3, let alone > for the whole month!". The ones who choose #1 don't value their > time enough, IMO. I guess you're right in what small business owners are doing, but IMHO they are not valuing confidentiality of their data high enough. I don't know which encryption standards are in use, but I doubt most people even know about http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html by Bruce Schneier, let alone understand what he is saying. I say this being hit by a complete HW and data loss to a fire in '97. I prefer keeping my data off-site and off-net. my 2¢ Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when replying, I might not see either copy. bsb-at-psycho-dot-informationsanarchistik-dot-de or: bsb-at-psycho-dot-i21k-dot-de O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
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