Dear all, just a few words. I won't engage in this discussion but I am reading it all. Thanks for bringing up the topic, I hope it makes people more aware of their responsibilities towards the data they handle and I am thankful that through this discussion we found the one case where staff mails were redirected, this has been fixed in the meantime (that person got his mail address many years before as a volunteer, so I didn't notice earlier).
There are some best practices in IT administration which I am following and which have a sane cost-benefit ratio. There is no difference in the kind of data we handle, it all gets the same protection. I am aware that this is never a 100% perfect protection but quite good depending our investment of money and effort. Hartwig is also right sying that this will not save us from a government to spy on us. As we have our own servers and there is plenty of cool open source software around for all kind of problems I am using this wherever possible. Also natural we are using enycryption (HTTPS, IMAPS etc.) where applicable and we control access granularly, allowing people to access the server but only in areas needed, isolating each website and each database with its own accounts and system groups. Am 11.06.2013 09:12, schrieb Emmanuel Engelhart: > The wiki works now pretty well and Manuel has increased the upload limit > to 32MB. IMO, this is the best place to store files which should be kept > for a long time. The wiki should only be used to store files that won't change very often. Policies or forms for instance, which are created once and downloaded many times. For an exchange of file use our file service via webDAV: https://members.wikimedia.ch/Tine_Manual It has a dedicated space for projects everyone who has a WMCH mail account can access. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ http://wikimedia.ch Wikimedia CH website Wikimediach-l mailing list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l