> On Mon, 10/19/09, John Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> Never underestimate the power of human error. As this
> >> debacle demonstrates.

> > (me, IIRC) Which particular debacle would that be?

> I was referring to the Sidekick debacle:
 
> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Claims-Sidekick-Data-Will-Be-Restored-This-Week-491196/

Whoops!  I have a friend who isn't using that service, but somehow lost all his 
hundreds of contacts from his phone, and they weren't retreivable from his 
back-up site either.  I, OTOH, have all my contacts on paper...(and I'd be smug 
about it except I don't have hundreds, just dozens, which is quite managable).

There _was_ something about a 'hole in security of cloud computing' in a recent 
MIT Tech update (but I only get the headlines, not the full story, and doubt 
I'd understand without some major studying, which I just don't have time for at 
this point...).

Debbi
Borderline Luddite? Maru   :)


      

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