Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Sep 2007 13:48 UTC, submitted by Rahul
"The world is changing and online applications are becoming more and more popular, whether for e-mail or word processing. The developers behind Bigboard and Gnome's 'online desktop' initiative think it's time our desktops started catching up. Read on to find an interview with Colin Walters, more information about Bigboard, the online desktop and the obligatory screencast showing it off!"
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Yeah I work in one of them and I know just how difficult it can be to get in, but it goes beyond that. It's no so much the threat of an unknown intruder getting in, but the so-called 'trusted' people allowed in on a regular basis, such as support staff.
Yes you can encrypt the data and yes there are logical controls over the data, but someone has to have the knowledge of how it all hangs together internally whom may be able to access your private information.
Encryption is one thing, but with the massively parallel computing systems around it stands that encryption can only go so far.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were SETI like networks out there designed specifically to brute force crack passwords with those enormous rainbow tables.
Then again, maybe I'm just being paranoid.