On  Sat, 19 May 2018 20:49:45 +0200
Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> ha wrote:

> On Sat, 19 May 2018 16:57:07 +0200, Alessandro wrote in message 
> <[email protected]>:
> 
> > On Sat, 19 May 2018 at 16:42:49 +0200
> > Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Sat, 19 May 2018 04:25:53 +0200, Alessandro wrote in message 
> > > <[email protected]>:
> > >    
> > >>> {headdesk}
> > >>> 
> > >>> I really don't think it's that difficult to understand that
> > >>> avoiding outsourcing in no way precludes appropriate fallbacks
> > >>> and measures to eliminate SPoFs.  I'm frankly quite puzzled that
> > >>> my mentioning (as an example) GitLab elicited the comment 'This
> > >>> wouldn't have helped [because] you need redundancy' -- when I
> > >>> nowhere suggested eschewing redundancy and when that open source
> > >>> project has a mountain of documentation on that very subject.
> > >>> And I'm puzzled a second time to see you ignore my having just
> > >>> pointed that out, as if I hadn't.        
> > >> 
> > >>   You need redundancy in repository's admins, not on
> > >> infrastructure.      
> > >
> > > ..you need both, IME.  17 years ago, I was the final lawful
> > > webmaster at fmb.no, our domain docs were stolen by
> > > https://www.frp.no/ people.     
> > 
> >   Humm, how can infrastructure redundancy protect against document
> > stealth?  
> 
> ..theft, not stealth.  Google those 2. ;o)
> 
> > Infrastructure redundancy protects you against hardware
> > failure, not legal or bureaucratic events.  
> 
> ..that's your narrow view.  Real infrastructure redundancy means 
> setting up at least 2 fully independent web sites with at least 
> 2 competing independent web hotels mirroring each other,

  Web hosts, not hotels.  Google those 2. ;o)

> and feed
> them content over rsync, scp etc from a master server on e.g. a 
> cell phone.

  As I already said, this does nothing against theft of documents or
the allegedly illegal transfer of an Internet domain name or hijack of a DNS
record.

> ..in our case, problem was time and funding to litigate the control 
> of such legal or bureaucratic events.  4 hours before the "primary"
> ballot filing deadline, we were told we needed "5000 signatures" to
> file, truth is 500, we mobilized and got over 12,000 approved, despite
> having inch thick piles of signature sheets stolen from the 2 major
> Statoil gas stations south of Stavanger on Feb 28'th 2001.

  Infrastructure redundancy does not protect you against such events, too.
All of these events in fact involved non ICT infrastructures.

> ..from then on, it was all sabotage, I took over as webmaster in late
> July/early August, and without said infrastructure control, we wound 
> up with 688 votes.


Alessandro 


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