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Journal Journal: National Data Fire Drill Week

Journal by cindik on Friday October 15, 2010 @03:58PM

After yet another client lost a database with no backup (1.2G, 1100 customers), I have decided to create and promote National Data Fire Drill Week.

I'm promoting an idea for people to test their backup and restore systems annually.

Comment Challenging problem (Score 2, Insightful) 769

by cindik on Thursday September 16, 2010 @11:06AM (#33600658) Attached to: Why Are Terrorists Often Engineers?

Part of the allure may be that carrying out such an attack is a challenging problem to solve. Engineers are all about solving problems, figuring out puzzles, coming up with elegant solutions.

Comment The same company the DoD is working with? (Score 4, Insightful) 330

by cindik on Friday April 13, 2007 @05:46AM (#18716117) Attached to: Sri Lankan Terrorists Hack Satellite

This story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/ 12/1755218) about a DoD router in space says they're contracting with IntelSat.

According to this story, they've a) been hacked and b) have links to Hezbolah.

Why would our government involve a company that's incompetent and has links to terrori...

...never mind.

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