[Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

[Benjamin Ducke]

So let me get this right, Simon:

You work for a national defense agency, in a high-security
environment.

Yet:

  You prefer and trust (because it is expensive, and must thus
be trustworthy?) a GIS that is produced by a foreign giant
corporation and consists of only proprietary software which you
cannot inspect on a source code level? And whose fileformats have
no detailed, public documentation?

  You would rather entrust your data (infrastructure) to the
proprietary black-box technologies of said company, than to
an open source infrastructure that is built openly by volunteers,
public services and smaller companies all around the world?

Do you see the fundamental flaw in your decision making process?

Cheers,

Ben

On 23/05/2023 19:18, jhubbslist--- via QGIS-User wrote:
> Hi, Simon -
> 
> The geodatabase and layer data files will be as protected as you and 
> your department's IT shop make them. So make sure to keep them off AWS, 
> Dropbox, Azure, or any other external service. If anything, you're 
> better off with QGIS in that regard - especially if you run it built 
> from source - because if e.g. ArcGIS were beaming everything you were 
> doing to some unknown offsite entity, you'd only know it by capturing 
> the network traffic. On the other hand, even if /you/ don't go through 
> QGIS' source yourself looking for INFOSEC shenanigans, it being open 
> source ensures that anyone, anywhere, /can/. It's not airtight in 
> INFOSEC terms because yes, some miscreant could write a backdoor into QGIS,
> 
> I made a decision a long time ago to stick with QGIS and other Open 
> Source software for GIS purposes because my access to ESRI products 
> depends on an employer's or client's paying for it; if I no longer have 
> that employer or client, I'll lose that access and I can't afford ArcGIS 
> licenses on my own, so why don't I keep my expertise going with QGIS 
> since no one can take it from me?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/23/23 12:09 PM, Simon via QGIS-User wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian 
>> government and had some questions regarding QGIS.
>>
>> Firstly, I'm working on a project to determine the seismic risk and 
>> vulnerability of all the department's buildings different Canadian 
>> Provinces. An important part of the project will be to create a 
>> geodatabase containing crucial information about each building. After, 
>> I plan to create a layer that will show the location of these 
>> buildings on a map.
>>
>> Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and 
>> their locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the 
>> geodatabase and layer that I plan to create will be safe and 
>> protected, or if other users will have access to them since QGIS is 
>> free and open source?
>>
>> At first, I was planning to work with ArcGIS Pro but I'm currently 
>> waiting for a license. When or if it comes through, I'll stick with 
>> ArcGIS but for now QGIS seems to be the best alternative.
>>
>> If QGIS is not safe, are there other safe and similar softwares you 
>> can recommend?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
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