Today there was a case where someone posted a question using real data; certainly not a problem in of itself as we encourage folks to post as much as they can give us about their problems in order to solve them. However, this real data has real names and real email addresses and real physical addresses. Becuase of concerns of privacy, I took editing action and munged the names and addresses to nonsense ones, just to protect those people that were actually named, but keeping the question and data format untouched. I don't blame the person that posted the original question, only because it's easy to forget to 'protect the innocent' when you post a question.

I'm only posting this to remind people that when they post code or data, they should take all steps to make sure that no personal or security information is given away, at least beyond those items that are your own. (Eg., I control my email address, but no one else does). This is not only important when you post data, but also when you post code; particularly if, for example, you have your code establish a user/pass connection to a DB; if you leave your username and password in place in the code, that's definitely not secure. Similarly, it's probably a good idea to munge server names and file locations that are special and not public as with a combination of either, a malicious hacker can wreck havoc on your system.

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Dr. Michael K. Neylon - mneylon-pm@masemware.com || "You've left the lens cap of your mind on again, Pinky" - The Brain
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