A common technique for testing data structures is to populate the data
with "lorem ipsum" text.
See: www.lipsum.com.
You obtain the text, parse it and de-duplicate as necessary. Load it into
your structures.
There are many advantages to this technique. In this case the db could be
populated, fully functioning, and no personal data is interchanged.
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David S. Crampton
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:20:59 -0700, Brian Barker
<b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:
At 17:58 28/10/2011 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 28/10/11 14:49, Ian Whitfield a écrit :
I would be happy to put my DB up for examination but I am _VERY_
protective of the contents as it is all personal information of the
Members in my Group and I don't want that getting into the 'wrong'
hands!!
If you send me the ODB file in private [...], I can assure you it will
remain confidential (I'm an attorney).
I'm always puzzled by this sort of claim. The subjects of this personal
information presumably expect that it will remain confidential: that is,
not be distributed beyond the audience they anticipated when they
provided the information. If it gets to you, that expectation - that
confidence - has already been betrayed. It doesn't matter what you
promise to do or not to do with the information: if you have it, it is
no longer confidential.
Perhaps you think that confidentiality is respected if you undertake not
to pass the information on to others. But that idea fails too. Suppose
that I ask you for the information; following this argument, you would
be justified in passing it on to me, provided I promised also to keep it
confidential - presumably meaning that I would not pass it further. But
there is nothing to stop me then making use of the same exception that
you have applied. Do you see where the argument is leading? By this
theory, it is perfectly permissible for everybody on the planet to see
the information, provided they all undertake to keep the information
"confidential" - with this new, looser, useless meaning.
When I offer someone information in confidence, I expect that it will go
no further - not even to the recipient's lawyer, let alone someone
else's. But you are by no means alone: many people think they can
betray any secret as long as they are assured that the next person will
behave the same way, receiving the same empty assurance.
Brian Barker
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