[Foundation-l] 2010-11 Annual Plan Now Posted to FoundationWebsite

[Noein]

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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-proposed-20100618-yln6.html

On 03/07/2010 18:54, David Gerard wrote:
> On 3 July 2010 17:35, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at 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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