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If something of similar consequences as the kill switch [1] were triggered against the WMF in USA, would it still be accessible for the rest of the world?
[1]: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/obama-internet-kill-switch-...
On 03/07/2010 18:54, David Gerard wrote:
On 3 July 2010 17:35, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB birgitte_sb@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.
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