On 3 July 2010 17:35, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB
<birgitte_sb(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
David Gerard writes:
>
http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/04/10/disaster-recovery-planning/
> Can we reasonably say that everything else on the list there is a
> solved problem we don't have to worry about?
I wonder how robustly the user database is backed up /
whether it's in
multiple data centers.
Talking to Danese yesterday, she is keenly aware of this stuff and how
the Tampa data centre is one hurricane away from disappearing! Hence
plans for a redundant data centre in Virginia, etc.
You're right that our role as
identity-verifier for our millions of users is important.
That's getting into more esoteric threat models, e.g. protecting
reusers from an insane contributor, or protecting contributors from a
malicious reuser. But the data we hold but don't put into the public
dumps is really very important stuff.
- d.