[GLLUG] "Data-poisoning" & "Data Safety" -- Wisdom, please!

[Alistair Mann]

On 02/06/2016 00:13, DL Neil wrote:

 > It intrigues me that as 'everything' seems to be moving to 'the cloud',
 > we are back to thinking in terms of local/physical presence.

There are people who earn 79 new British pee a month from folk thinking 
'everything' is moving to 'the cloud'. And yet the WSJ correctly 
identified it as just "someone else's computer" in 2007, and that's 
certainly the route I take. I think you're absolutely right that people 
are thinking in terms of local/physical: I'm often asked "I want 
pictures I take on my iphone on my laptop, but once there, I don't want 
them on the phone. Yet when I delete them, it seems to fill up with 
laptop pictures almost immediately." Without acknowledging data has the 
quality of place (and your 'authoritative copy' is an excellent concept 
- thank you), it's impossible to comprehend what's going on. The cloud 
makes that acknowledgement that much harder - and so rent-seeking that 
much easier.

Thanks for your insights on Data Security and Management; they've opened 
up new avenues for me. It seems clear from here and elsewhere that if I 
think that the original concepts should be handled as related, I need to 
assert that specifically.

Cheers,
-- 
Alistair Mann


On 02/06/2016 00:13, DL Neil wrote:
> Alistair,
>
> On 02/06/16 10:30, Alistair Mann via GLLUG wrote:
>> If gllug knows these two concepts already, what name does gllug know
>> them by?
>
> I've always thought in terms like "Data Security" which start in the
> technical realm, eg did the backup unit actually record on the tape, and
> extends quite naturally into the concerns you've outlined.
>
> Thus leading to more positively-aligned terms such as "authoritative
> copy" - THE version of some data, compared with which all others are but
> copies, easy example: code in a change-control/version-control system cf
> a copy the developer has forked and may/not have changed, verified
> (tested), etc.
>
> Many of the examples mentioned I would term "Data Management" which is a
> completely different view to that of a programmer. Looking at where the
> data comes from, how/where 'we' store it, amend, etc, and when we remove
> it. This summed-up in the concept of a data life-cycle. It is embodied
> in privacy legislation and similar regulations in many societies and
> jurisdictions.
>
> It intrigues me that as 'everything' seems to be moving to 'the cloud',
> we are back to thinking in terms of local/physical presence.
>