OT: Re: Hacker steals secret documents from NASA

From: Damian Menscher (menscher+security@uiuc.edu)
Date: 08/14/02 

From: Damian Menscher <menscher+security@uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:18:11 GMT

Faux_Pseudo <Faux_Pseudo@yahoo.comercial> wrote:
>> Posting the url of a distro (or alt.binaries.*) is one of the safest
>> ways to keep it; counter-intuitive but true. The data gets
>> distributed far and wide, making it impossible to be completely
>> erased; and the logs get jammed too full to either keep or make sense
>> of where it all went.

> I have often found times when deja.com was a better source of backups
> for scripts I have written than easily fried out floppies or cd's that
> didn't burn just right.

This is the primary reason why I'm always sure to post a summary
of any question I raise in a newsgroup. I often find myself
reading my own posting for answers 2-3 years later.

Then there's the well-known quote from Linus Torvalds:
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP
site and have everyone else mirror it."

Damian Menscher 

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