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In our app, users give us sensitive information (credentials for logging into a third party site). At some point, we need those credentials in cleartext in order to access the third party site, but while they''re in our database, we want to make best effort for protecting them. What techniques have people used for this? I find myself asking "WWMD (What Would Mint.com Do?) -- any

Hi list, I'm building a backup server for 3 hosts (1 workstation, 2 server). I will use bacula to perform backups. The backup is performed on disks (2 x 3TB on mdraid mirror) and for each hosts I've created a logical volume with related size. This 3 hosts have different data size with different disk change rate. Each host must have a limited sized resource and a reserved space. If a

Hi, I have an application where I want to be able to encrypt large amounts of text before storing them to my DB (MySQL Text field - might be switched to a Blob). I have an idea of how to do this, but was wondering what the general consensus is within the community regarding the issue. I have come across a couple different plug ins/gems (Stringbox, EzCrypto), but am wondering what other people

...theft or even plain old dropping it? In general you should aim for multiple backup copies; are you willing to bet the company's future on one untried copy? You should ensure that the backup copies are held preferably off site, failing that in a separate building, or else in a secure fireproof strongbox. Start by assuming you come into work one day to find the building burnt out and collapsed. Now work out how to rebuild your system on new kit on another site and you'll find that you define your backup needs. Regards, Martin On 12/10/16 12:54, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi list, > I...