[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[Salakhetdinov Shamil]

 John --

Even if your private bitbucket.org account will be hacked and locked down you'll still have a copy of your sources on your local system disks and in your local system backups, - if that is not safe enough IYO then you could also have backups on a few "cloud"  sites.

-- Shamil

>Saturday, November 14, 2015 3:36 PM -05:00 from John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com>:
>
>Just today John posted a ransomware virus locking stuff down and 
>demanding payment to get it back.  So yea, not trying to figure it out 
>perhaps but...
>
>It is just a simple reduction in exposure to me.
>
>On 11/14/2015 3:27 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>>   Hi  John --
>>
>> I do not know about any bitbucket.org successful hacking attempts - do you?
>>
>> What do you mean by "hacked"?
>>
>> If stolen - do you suppose there are any hackers in this small world who will try to spend any time to find out what your code does to somehow use this knowledge to harm your business?
>>
>> If damaged - here is how you can easily prevent this damage -  https://github.com/Alevsk/Git-Hack-Recovery
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> -- Shamil
>>
>>
>>> Saturday, November 14, 2015 2:30 PM -05:00 from John Colby < jwcolby at gmail.com >:
>>>
>>> It is a simple matter of keeping it off the internet.
>>>
>>> I have never EVER seen ANYTHING on the internet not subject to hacking.
>>> If it is on my own server then it is behind my firewall. In the 8 years
>>> that I have been running VMs on my 2008-R2 VM Server, none of which ever
>>> touch the internet, I have never been hacked.
>>>
>>> If it is not public, why put it in a public place?
>>>
>>> On 11/14/2015 2:16 PM, Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote:
>>>> Hi Gustav and John --
>>>>
>>>> What's the use of a local Git server when you are an "alone wolf" or an up to five members team of developers?
>>>> BitBucket.org is *free* for *private* unlimited quantity of projects for the mentioned above use cases.
>>>> I'm keeping quite a few on my private commercial projects there using both Git and Mercurial.
>>>> Her are the stats of one of the biggest sets of projects:
>>>>
>>>> - first commit in August 2010 - it's now  commit# 987,
>>>> - 6660 .cs files,
>>>> - 55 solutions (.sln files),
>>>> - 295 C# projects (.csproj files)
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> -- Shamil
>>>>
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