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Why should they care? The teams. What is the hype all about? We are all friends, aren't we?
Ok lets draw a picture here
- 5-6 Teams (each spending 30-75 million euro)
- Most probably half of the staff have worked with numerous people from other competitors
- Depending on the format/venues all competitors will be in a short proximity to eachother
- New boat need to hit the water in less and 1.5 years, a boat never has been constructed before. Putting a great pressure on designers and builders to get it pretty right the first time. Solve problems they don't even know about yet....
Biggest risk 'confidentiality'!
- How do I keep cell phone cameras out of my boat building shed without killing the cooperate climate?
- How do I run a tool like Skype that is highly functional and adapted by so many in a cooperate secure way. Upps just dragged and dropped my new wing profile to the wrong contact?
- Is it really cheaper to tell everyone to bring along their own laptop and work from it?
3 Questions alot of answers possible.
1. Problem: Cell phone cameras. It takes 15 sec to take a high definition picture with a Iphone4 and send it via email to a outside party, post it on facebook, or even better straight to an sailing anarchy forum! Solution, well my not buy disposable cell phones for all the builders. The ones without cameras of course! Ban cameras and keep the builders connected to the outside world. (hence these poor guys will spend the next 4mnt straight in the shed building....)
2. Problem: Skype, flexible, fast, cheap and super handy. A corporate nightmare! Files are dragged and dropped onto a contact and sent over an encrypted channel to the other person. No logs, no way to kill it. How do I keep this tool running without running the risk of the just fired aero dynamic specialist that didn't seem to be as good as we thought to just drag and drop the entire plan folder to someone willing to give him a new job? Solution... Many but think separation of duties...
3. Problem: We are a small team we will save money and tell everyone to just bring their own computers. That will save money. Really? Small team, ok small salaries, so everyone thinks what they create belongs to them because they are underpaid, so kiss the intellectual property goodbye.
Like in any team constellation, its only as strong as its weakest link! So do you really want to let the security of your data and reliability of systems depend on how a sailmaker, sailor or boatbuilder setups his system and treats it. (I am not saying they are not able to do so, but would you let me recut a 3DL sail?). Solution: Today computer run for less then 400 euros, some netbooks are 260euros.. . If the team owns them, then the team has the right to say how they are run and treated. An investment that will pay out in the long run.
Of course there is no 100% security, but getting things setup right from the beginning is cheaper and easier then trying to fix it later. And also one has to trust one another. But as a famous sailor once said. It's a Gentlemans game thats why you need be really careful who you trust.
If someone spends 50 Million on a campaign, its not gonna hurt him to pay a eastern script kiddie 5000 USD to hack the hotmail account of the CFD designer of the other team. Protocol and Rule69 back and forth, proofing that Chen, Sergei or let call him Ken received funds and did break the law is not gonna happen.
Think about it! how much it it be worth (just in time) for team C to know what teams B 2nd wing will look like? Call me paranoid, if 50% is true someone is in trouble.
be afraid, very afraid.
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