ePrint (was Re: HP OfficeJet 6500A plus)

[Steve Parker]

I don't even yet trust "cloud" computing or third-party support remote
monitoring and support, so how backwards am I.

Much of the remote monitoring we can and do accomplish ourselves. Then there
are local providers if the site is too much to want to manage oneself, and
would like to know that a data center open and manned 7 x 24 is keeping an
eye on things and will let you know id something starts to go sideways, but
I'm sorry, I have a problem with the NOC being located somewhere in the
outback of Pakistan.

How different is "cloud" computing? No one has been able to convince me
otherwise. When asked where my or my customer's data resides, there is
always a pregnant pause on the other end of the phone!

So I concur. I don't care to have clear text emails sent to HP servers
(sitting no doubt in India or Pakistan) deciphering the data and sending it
of to who-knows-where as it is sent back to your customer's printer. Too
many security holes and too many thing to go wrong.

Just my two cents!

Steve Parker
ABC Computing Services


-----Original Message----- 
From: Fairlight 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:56 PM 
To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com 
Subject: Re: ePrint (was Re: HP OfficeJet 6500A plus) 

>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Campbell shouted:
> This sounds like a very Bad Idea(tm) to me.
> 
> I can't imagine sending critical print jobs through somebody
> else's server where it's not under my control.  Perhaps if there
> were a way to send the print job properly encrypted, and have the
> printer decrypt, but otherwise forget it.  The same could also be
> said for sending anything sensitive via e-mail unencrypted :-).

I 110% concur.  Yet another erosion of privacy that only fools would
tolerate, and indeed subsidise by actively paying to be screwed.

Additionally, how boned are you if HP's servers are unreachable, either
through downtime on their end, or because a gateway fell over somewhere
between you and them?  "Oh well, I didn't -really- want to print right now.
That presentation for the annual conference that starts in 30min and which
required people to fly in from all over the world...that can wait a bit.
No problem."

Right.

mark->
-- 
Audio panton, cogito singularis.
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