GOVERNMENT BACKUP
I look at my little computer here and I can understand how to do a data backup. But when I think of the Federal Government computers, I don't get it. I mean do they just have a huge hard drive as big as a house and then every day or hour copy the stuff over? And what about safety? Suppose somebody could hack into the big hard drive and take out private info on everybody? There is the social security computers, Pentagon computers, just way too many ways for somebody to drive a truck through that stuff and get the goods on everybody. Even with my computer I'm paranoid that somebody will drop some spyware on it and know every little thing I'm doing. This reminds me of a time when you did so little with a PC that you didn't have to worry about backing up anything. It was just a typewriter on steroids. You could type letters, but you had to print them on a dot matrix printer. Looked not so good. I think my first PC had 128K of memory. Imagine? But that was a lot back then. The first moon landing lunar module had only something like 74k memory. So even twenty plus years ago the little computer on my desk was more powerful than the space craft that first landed on the moon. Can't believe it. Now with all the memory you would think NASA could get a space ship to Pluto and back in a flash.