-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If something of similar consequences as the kill switch [1] were triggered against the WMF in USA, would it still be accessible for the rest of the world?
[1]: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/obama-internet-kill-switch-proposed-20100618-yln6.html On 03/07/2010 18:54, David Gerard wrote: > On 3 July 2010 17:35, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB <birgitte...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> David Gerard writes: > >>> http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/10/disaster-recovery-planning/ >>> Can we reasonably say that everything else on the list there is a >>> solved problem we don't have to worry about? > >> I wonder how robustly the user database is backed up / whether it's in >> multiple data centers. > > > Talking to Danese yesterday, she is keenly aware of this stuff and how > the Tampa data centre is one hurricane away from disappearing! Hence > plans for a redundant data centre in Virginia, etc. > > >> You're right that our role as >> identity-verifier for our millions of users is important. > > > That's getting into more esoteric threat models, e.g. protecting > reusers from an insane contributor, or protecting contributors from a > malicious reuser. But the data we hold but don't put into the public > dumps is really very important stuff. > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJML3kfAAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6LFYEIAMsZkzwwB2fynB3wvLEOO/m0 Zd8lmSogUikpyHAasf/rB9RG/5DiVgv1XvILlh/E8DRNfLeEXbYy0u3qkuAX8h3+ Dy0LVcz1+9ZVr42/nWymwVlywK+1MgWjAzaV9EDFPU6+153DJtIISpDedgnkHvKw wZwKn28u+MzQTGK5rTIIE6P3tc34lWaPmuYG+5DEG29hA1uU2xStW/ZjzJ3ZV2xv JeIwTwNm41mxhNHtW+wedS1IC1fSef5yLCz8hm9QBpzFdP2XjEYFUz8X4k/rFXaZ kHKARESi6XjCPrDGoK58DAnait7DmjPUa+vo95tuMFqA2La4EqIpBb8pYglEE5Y= =06ID -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
