[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Tim Chown]

That’s also available at Jisc. It works, but yes it has limitations.

We do some non-sensitive/personal stuff via shared Google docs as it’s just convenient for collaborative edits. And I put some stuff to Dropbox. The trick is to be smart about what you put “out there”, but it’s easy to be slack to “get things done”...

Tim

> On 21 Sep 2016, at 15:35, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> We have OneDrive for Business. (which incidentally is not good for a lot of purposes, I've done a lot of testing of it.)
> 
> On 21/09/2016 14:53, Tim Chown wrote:
>> Very true Chris, but I wonder who is following that.  Dropbox is so much easier than the J drive in some many ways.
>> 
>> Has the uni signed up to any branded commercial “box” type solution?
>> 
>> Tim
>> 
>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 13:35, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's guidance for people who don't have a better understanding of data protection.
>>> 
>>> I'm not an official spokesman for this, but you should not be storing data about *people* in inappropriate storage. This includes any data about identifiable people, such as non-public attendance lists for an event. It also includes non-structured data like email! Most important of all are the sensitive categories such as race, religion, etc.
>>> 
>>> We often use google docs to gather information about things. but not about people.
>>> 
>>> On 21/09/2016 13:29, Jules Field wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 21/09/2016 13:19, Tim Chown wrote:
>>>>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 09:13, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> iSolutions have some notes for university OSX users considering upgrading to Sierra.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/service-status/index.page
>>>>> Gosh, this seems rather nuts.
>>>>> 
>>>>> a) a major anti-virus company doesn’t have its act together for a major new OS
>>>>> 
>>>>> b) the university has its head in the sand over shadow IT… who *doesn’t* have a dropbox/box/icloud/google drive account?  It’ll be a small number.
>>>>> 
>>>>> tim
>>>> The ship referred to in (b) has already sailed, got beaten up in a storm, sunk, been turned to oil, pumped back out the ground again and used to manufacture the iPhone 7. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> The Univ does not have its head in the sand over shadow IT at the top of the univ, just some bits in the middle. :)
>>>> 
>>>> Jules
>>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>> 
>>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>> 
> 
> Jules
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