Because they are trying to get as much as they can for the least amount of money. It happens all the time. You can buy a 1TB external disk for about $500 but a quality SCSI array would be much more expensive. However, if your 1TB disk fails you lose everything. If you lose a disk in a SCSI array you don't. More and more people are trying to do things with as little money as possible and are sacrificing the security that comes along with the higher price of quality hardware.
Also, because they might be just plain stupid. :)
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Philip Dorr Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:03 AM To: Oren Beck Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Would Lin?ux have been affected by such virus preloads why would government agencies use large portable hard drives to store databases? Quote: Around 1,800 of the portable Maxtor hard discs, produced in Thailand, carried two Trojan horse viruses: autorun.inf and ghost.pif, the bureau under the Ministry of Justice said. The bureau said that hard discs with such a large capacity are usually used by government agencies to store databases and other information. On Nov 14, 2007 7:19 AM, Oren Beck [email protected] wrote:
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