Hi, Nobody in their right mind would store personal info (SSNs, credit card nos, etc) in a test or dev environment, never mind chuck it on a disk in plaintext to takeaway. It's trivial to XXXX it out for test use. Surprised you asked on a list that almost certainly knows better. Cheers, Phil On 22 Jan 2013, at 22:43, Ram K <lambu999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Looking at this news, I wonder what kind of storage media do the listers > here use and what kind of backup media they have. Anyone using any external > hard drive for live data? > http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/16/canada-privacy-studentloans-idUSL1E9CGJ0C20130116 > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l