[LINK] SMH: '4800 Aussie sites evaporate after hack'

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 22/06/2011 10:13 AM, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> what is wrong with people taking responsibility for backing up their own
> data?  In my view this is the first law of being a user of any computer
> device.  If you consider it of value, then treat it with the respect it
> deserves.
>
This not exactly a new problem. People have been losing their life's 
work for a long time.
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/biog_mick_t.html

> When Mick was working on his PhD, he and his girlfriend arranged to go 
> and see her parents, with Mick planning to show them all the notes for 
> his thesis, to impress them with his seriousness. But, on the way, he 
> and his girlfriend stopped at a T Rex concert, someone broke into 
> Mick's van and all the notes were stolen. This is why Mick is now one 
> of the few professors in Britain not to have a PhD!

Computers just make it easier to make bigger mistakes faster.

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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email:	brd at iimetro.com.au
website:	www.drbrd.com



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