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Email this7:45 am
October 27, 2013
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I don't have any issue with critically important sites being taken down for a few days if necessary to be abundantly cautious. It is much better than trying to fix the damage after the horse has left the barn.
2:45 am
February 27, 2018
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Canada's new computer, state of the art, top of the line, making us again a world leader.
6:10 am
September 11, 2013
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Genius, can't be hacked! We'll get some guys like those two with white gloves who carry around the Stanley Cup in a locked case to be in charge of its custody.
AltaRed, I came upon this re the exploit previously noted by Norman1, and I'm certainly no expert on what it means, but could your faith in the security of data in the Cloud be misplaced? "Elaborating on what services could be targeted via the exploit, Wortley said that “Cloud services like Steam, Apple iCloud, and apps like Minecraft” have been discovered to be vulnerable......."
8:07 am
October 27, 2013
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No, I don't. There are various levels of breaches. One is cloud service operations themselves. The other is a breach of data held on behalf of others such as a business or a consumer like ourselves.
The former is strictly an inconvenience while a cloud service is used only for back up and has to shut down temporarily while they clear the exposure. The data itself from individual accounts is secured separately.
Also, a cloud service is not the same thing as, for example, a credit card company, that has all the application data submitted by its customers improperly stored and then hacked. That credit card company will (should) have a backup set of that data stored separately in the cloud.
None of the following are cloud based services like Dropbox, One Drive, Google Drive, etc. They are the idiot companies individuals do business with. See examples on: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130877/the-biggest-data-breaches-of-the-21st-century.html and https://www.varonis.com/blog/data-breach-statistics/
6:22 am
November 18, 2017
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This is, I understand, the "Log4J" vulnerability that has been terrorizing the web in recent weeks. It's a defect in a log-recording program widely used worldwide.
Several successive fixes to the program have still not eliminated all the threats. Our tax servers are well protected by being shut down.
If anything is on the web, it will be attacked. And sometimes cracked.
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12:56 pm
January 12, 2019
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UPDATE . . .
I just finished successfully signing on to my CRA Account. The CRA site appears well, and operation properly.
I wonder when they are going to make this known to the general public ... or did I miss that memo. 
- Dean
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