[148753] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Megaupload.com seized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald Eastlake)
Sat Jan 21 16:24:11 2012
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09C8CE85@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:22:53 -0500
To: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I have always had a certain fondness for paper.
Thanks,
Donald
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On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 3:19 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sure, but balance that with podunk.usa's possibly incompetent IT staff?
>> It costs a lot of money to run a state of the art shop, but only
>> incrementally more as you add more and more instances of essentially
>> identical shops. I guess I have more trust that Google is going to get
>> the redundancy, etc right than your average IT operation.
>>
>> Now whether you should *trust* Google with all of that information from
>> a security standpoint is another kettle of fish.
>>
>> Mike
>
> I agree, Mike. =A0Problem is that the communications infrastructure that =
enables these sorts of options is generally so reliable people don't think =
about what will happen if something happens between them and their data tha=
t takes out their access to those services. =A0Imagine a situation where se=
veral municipal governments in, say, Santa Cruz County, California are usin=
g such services and there is a repeat of the Loma Prieta quake. =A0Their da=
ta survives in Santa Clara county, their city offices survive but there is =
considerable damage to infrastructure and structures in their jurisdiction.=
=A0But the communications is cut off between them and their data and time =
to repair is unknown. =A0The city is now without email service. =A0Employee=
s in one department can't communicate with other departments. =A0Access to =
their files is gone. =A0They can't get the maps that show where those gas l=
ines are. =A0The local file server that had all that information was retire=
d after the documents were transferred to "the cloud" and the same happened=
to the local mail server. =A0At this point they are "flying blind" or rely=
ing on people's memories or maybe a scattering of documents people had prin=
ted out or saved local copies of. =A0It's going to be a mess.
>
> The point is that "the cloud" seems like a great option but it relies on =
being able to reach that "cloud". =A0Your data may be safe and sound and yo=
ur office may have survived without much wear, but if something happens in =
between, you might be sunk. =A0And out in "Podunk", there aren't often mult=
iple paths. =A0You are stuck with what you get.
>
> Or your cloud provider might announce they are going out of that business=
next week.
>
>
