Safe havens

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mph624Aberdeen
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Safe havens

Post by mph624Aberdeen »

Does anyone have experience of installing MLwin inside a data Safe Haven?
The ACONF (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/childrenofthe1950s/) safe Haven contains personally sensitive information
and analysis of this data set requires analysis to be done on particular machines at certain locations.

I and my group would like to use MLwin on this data. The IT section at UoA are saying it will compromise the system and may even crash it! I think they are being Luddites, however, before I start ranting at the dean. Does anyone know of LMwin issues in any environment or platform that could potentially put this Haven at risk.

Regards

Roger
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ChrisCharlton
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Joined: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:34 am

Re: Safe havens

Post by ChrisCharlton »

I have not heard of this being a problem before, however if there are any issues I would be interested in hearing about them so that we can look into fixing them in later releases. The only potential issue that I can think of would be that, as MLwiN decompress worksheets saved in .wsz format to the user's temporary directory when it loads them, potentially these data could be stored unencrypted if the original data location is encrypted and the temporary directory isn't.
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