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Analog pasts preserved in digital futures

According to UNESCO, thousands of hours of culturally significant audiovisual footage — including the original moon landing tapes — have been lost forever. Magnetic tapes degrade and often physical formats can disappear and break. So how can we preserve our cultural legacy? The answer is digitisation.

April 9th, 2011 in Government by Colin Ho Comment 28 Votes

Is encryption just a waste of time?

Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.

September 26th, 2008 in Archive by Angus Kidman Comment Vote

How do you deal with 250,000 tapes?

I'm standing in a room with roughly a quarter of a million backup tapes. No, this isn't where the FuelWatch guys hid the evidence, it's the Perth storage area for Spectrum Data, which specialises in storing ageing backup media and helping companies retrieve data from long-forgotten archives.

June 3rd, 2008 in Archive by Angus Kidman Comment Vote

Google launches local hosted security service

Google has launched a hosted security service for enterprise customers in Australia, a re-branded version of the Postini service it acquired last year.

May 13th, 2008 in Content Management by Liam Tung Comment Vote

ODF guerillas rally for document freedom

Twenty-two organisations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software.

March 27th, 2008 in Australia by Liam Tung Comment Vote

Archiving software leaks Gmail passwords to author

A US programmer has uncovered an e-mail address hard-coded into an archiving program that is designed to capture username and password information from users of the software..

March 11th, 2008 in Gmail by Robert Vamosi Comment Vote

White House loses millions of war e-mails

The White House is accused of destroying key government records by losing e-mails written by the President and key advisers such as Karl Rove between 2002 and 2005.

February 27th, 2008 in Archiving by Anne Broache Comment Vote

Mozilla ready to add IM to Thunderbird stable?

Mozilla Messaging, the newly launched subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, is "interested" in developing instant messaging software, according to the organisation's chief executive.

February 20th, 2008 in Thunderbird by Tom Espiner Comment 1 Vote

Office SP3: Are new formats more secure?

Blocking old file formats in the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 (SP3) release was meant to bolster security for Microsoft customers, but whether the new formats are any more secure than older ones is debatable.

January 8th, 2008 in Archiving by Liam Tung Comment Vote

Open source archiving gets boost from HP, MIT

Users of DSpace, the open source archiving tool, will receive help and support via a not-for-profit organisation set up by the creators of the tool, MIT and Hewlett-Packard.

July 19th, 2007 in Hewlett-packard by Andrew Donoghue Comment Vote

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