[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Christopher Gutteridge]

If useful I can ask if we can have some guidelines to help people apply 
some basic rules to avoid the most serious risks. The basic rule of 
thumb I work to is that non-public information about people, even 
non-structured data, should not leave the EU. This is pretty good stuff, 
it's to protect people, not profits. We do have a duty to protect our 
staff, students and others who trust us with their data.

Our staff clearly don't have a good touchstone for knowing what's OK and 
what's really bad. The law is quite clear and the fines for serious 
breaches are quite punitive.


On 21/09/2016 16:28, Leslie Carr wrote:
> It looks like (from Chris’ explanation of the institutional sensitivities) the issue is not “which platform” but “what documents”.
>
> So I am checking whether my historic course admin materials (which are on Dropbox) contain any marking information.
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> Les
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>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 16:11, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Git is great for certain things.
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>> Concurrent joint editing of documents isn’t really one, e.g. during a telecon (I also use etherpad for this).
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>> Easy access to files from a wide variety of platforms is another - that’s where dropbox is so well integrated into many apps.
>>
>> But it’s a good question Vladi, and maybe some recommendations for universities would be good to see.
>>
>> Tim
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>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 15:58, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> We have at least two git repositories but I'm not sure of the official rules on access. ECS people can almost certainly use gitlab for non public git work.
>>>
>>> http://gitlab.soton.ac.uk/
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>>> On 21/09/2016 15:47, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
>>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 15:35, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>> which incidentally is not good for a lot of purposes
>>>> would you care to elaborate? As I see it, none of them (dropbox, one drive, box, …) is any good for much, google drive and iCloud a little bit better… Wouldnt be nice to just set up a university Git repository…
>>>>
>>>> \vs
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>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>
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>>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>>
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