Onno (VK6FLAB)

At what point is the breach the responsibility of the company storing the data?

We’re going to need a lot of popcorn.

Excellent. Thank you.

Now look at the questions again and when you read the word “you”, insert “preludeofme”.

I’m asking because you’re also wanting to offer a service to customers.

AI bots will hammer your endpoints into the ground if left unchecked. They’ll happily compromise your services while they’re at it.

Here’s some questions:

• What happens when you die?
• What happens if your house is burgled or catches fire?
• How do you protect against pe(s)ts making themselves at home in your server?
• What happens with a power or internet outage?
• What happens with hardware failure?
• What happens if you suffer dementia?
• How are you dealing with AI bots?
• How are you mitigating hacking attempts, security, authentication and exploits?
• How are you dealing with data corruption?
• How do you mitigate against ransomware having entered your systems?

Note that I’m not picking on you, nor is this list comprehensive or in priority order. I’m trying to determine if you’ve considered these common issues and concerns associated with hosting stuff that has great sentimental value, if not actual value.

I can’t wait to read the explosion of breathless media reports and “expert” commentary discussing the sudden spate of compromised ID systems and the subsequent finger pointing between politicians blaming each other for this entirely foreseeable outcome while the professionals who kept raising concerns have their uncredited “I told you so” moment.

So … not ESA, the European Space Agency, founded in 1975 then.

Basically two choices:

1. Find a project you’re interested in and make a contribution. Many projects tag certain issues with something like “Good First Issue” as a way of lowering barriers to entry. Other things are updating documentation, fixing typos, then you can branch out into patches and pull requests.
2. Make your own FOSS project.