Anonymous Data
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Privacy has become a real concern for many industries and being DBAs, the safeguards and effort we must undertake to ensure privacy has some of us really working hard. HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and other regulation are forcing us to be more careful with how we handle the data our companies use on a regular basis.
But there are many other areas where privacy is of some concern and your habits, shopping, browsing, etc., are starting to become more of an issue. Lately there has been a bit of an uproar over search mapping programs that can render images of private residences.
I'm not sure what will happen there, and if you subscribe to various shopping "clubs" and use their cards, then you're on your own. But there is a project underway to make browsing anonymous. I saw this in Wired on a complete OS that allows browsing on a CD, no hard disk involved. It's built on OpenBSD and is an interesting idea. Especially if you can drop a disk, or plug in a USB key to some public computer that had some of your preferences setup. It's called Anonym.OS and is a neat idea.
I'm not as much of a *nix guy anymore, though this is tempting. Especially if you could get it down to a small footprint and could be sure of security. For the Windows folks out there, I've used Bart's Windows PE disk to recover dead systems. If you've never tried it, burn a CD and try it and then keep one around.
That one may really save you someday if your laptop dies on the road.
Steve Jones
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Sounds interesting enough ... but why ... the only user group I can think of to really want to 'take off' with this (aside from cyber-phobes) would be the terrorist market. Anonymous, encrypted and untraceable browsing ... hmmm ... just what Homeland Security ordered ...
RegardsRudy KomacsarSenior Database Administrator"Ave Caesar! - Morituri te salutamus."
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