Information security, recycling and irony

[Christopher Chisholm]

Good points.  Obviously the best way to go about things is to use as 
little as possible.  You /do/ have to wonder why huge paper reports need 
to be printed these days.  Especially when you can buy a 200gb HDD at 
bestbuy for $50 after rebates if you catch a good sale.

As far as recycling economics, well... all economics are complex.  I 
think we need to move to the future will all aspects of reducing energy 
usage in mind, from alternative fuels to alternative power sources to 
better insulation and more efficient lighting.  More efficient 
computers, too :).  Maybe it wouldn't be unfeasible for everyone to 
drive their stuff to a recycle center if cars burned clean fuel.  
Obviously to accomplish this time, money and research is needed, but 
hey.. more jobs at home, right?

Anyway to keep from going too far this will be my last post on this 
subject.  What will be my next subject?  Rampaging linux-powered 
Killbots from the future.  No root access for humanity.

-chris


Ray Cote wrote:

>
> This begs the question of precisely why such a report is needed.
> Why do you need a printout of all your customer's info?
> What do you do with this?
> Put it in a vault so you can hand enter it all back in when your 
> backups turn out to be bad?
>
> One of my first rules of security is you cannot misplace what you do 
> not have.
> If you don't have thousands of pages of sensitive information printed 
> out, you cannot lose it.
>
> --Ray