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Comment: Ubiquity (Score 1) 601

by bazald (#38429966) Attached to: Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email?

There isn't enough incentive to get ordinary users on board. Without recipients' use of PGP/GnuPG, I have no public keys to use and cannot encrypt my e-mails. I sign 99.9% of my e-mails, but nobody ever checks the signatures. Sometimes people ask me what the headers are about, and I'm happy to explain it to them. They usually don't end up caring. Again, to be more blunt, ordinary users see no incentive to get on board.

Comment: The Benefit of Backups is Non-Obvious (Score 5, Interesting) 403

by bazald (#38095672) Attached to: Why Do Companies Backup So Infrequently?

Seriously. Most people aren't willing to put in the effort to determine just how bad things would be if they had to resort to their (often inadequate) backups, and therefore they aren't willing to pay the time and capital to get adequate backups.

If you want your company to get better backups, run a simulation of what would happen if something failed. What's the best recovery you could do? What business would you lose? Then calculate the probability of that failure occurring, and be generous.

Comment: Corporations... Right (Score 1) 2247

by bazald (#37776496) Attached to: Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets)

Try depending strictly on yourself and entirely corporate-provided goods for a month. Ignoring the fact that you're able to breathe the air without taking in a lethal dose of toxic fumes, I think you'll find it very expensive to get goods shipped to you without using government-built and maintained transportation services. You death would be swift too. Make no mistake.

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