No. And for what is the “signal to noise ratio” can be a real problem.
The Preciousssssssss.
My bank pin#. And people who are in the witness protection program. Do they really even do that anymore?
What did Odin whisper into the ear of his dead son Baldr before he was burned on the pyre?
I work at a nuclear power plant. Some of the equipment is from the 60s and 70s. I find it annoying that I cant just google the model number and find a nice YouTube video on how to fix it unlike practically everything else in my life.
For example…Turkish army probably has military plans about how a war with Greece would look like, what each military unit’s job would be, how to prepare for it and so on, Greece probably has one in return, every serious country has those types of plans. Try finding them and tell me how it goes.
Beckdawrek, how can you possibly use your bank PIN if it’s not online?
Likewise, Duckster, of course the SDMB moderators’ manual is online. What, did you think that we all got it via FedEx or something?
In about 1955-56 my mother’s case was written up in a small medical journal. The journal itself no longer exists and AFAICT has never been digitized, much less indexed.
The elementary schools I attended closed decades ago and I doubt the central offices retained every single report card from those years.
If his pin is really known by the bank instead of a hash of it known by the bank then the bank is doing a piss poor job of security.
My PIN is 4 digits. There is no difference between storing the PIN or storing the hash.
What about that “k of p in a dpb” or whatever it was? That doesn’t seem to be online.
There are archives and research libraries all over the country, and all over the world, containing thousands upon thousands upon thousands of boxes of paper records, the vast majority of which will never be digitized.
The National Archives of the United States has about 2 million digitized records available through its website, but that represents a tiny percentage of all records held by the Archives. The digitized stuff generally represents materials from particularly popular or interesting topics. Much of the non-digitized stuff will probably never even be seen again by human eyes. It will sit in boxes until it’s destroyed or falls to dust.
My office is a library of information that can’t be found online. Old catalogs and performance charts for pumps made by long dead manufacturers. Well drilling logs from prior to the state recording them. Customer invoices and data cards for systems installed decades ago. Plenty of information of which I am the sole owner of.
I’ve made active effort to image and catalog the customer information so I can quickly reference it on my phone in the field, so much if it is online now. If someone wants to dig through my google drive they can find all types of obscure data. There are plenty of records to go, it’s not a high priority project to image files we haven’t needed in years.
I have multiple book cases of pump catalogs. If there is something I actually need to look up I’ll snap a picture of the page so maybe it’ll save me from looking it up again. Performance charts for pumps made 10 years ago can be difficult to find online. Ones from 60 years ago just don’t exist outside dusty old books.
U.S. census records are not available to the general public for 72 years.
Source.
On top of that, shit happens.
Information may be out there somewhere, but that doesn’t mean the average Joe can get to it.
A mouse, duh.
1234 vs 03ac674216f3e15c761ee1a5e255f067953623c8b388b4459e13f978d7c846f4
One is a 4 digit pin the other is a hash. They are very different.
Ok, thanks for letting me know.
The supposedly confidential tax information is probably on some AWS drive (Amazon Web Services cloud computing) accidentally made available by some government contractor.
**Can all information be found online? **
I can say with confidence that it isn’t. As Chronos immediately stated, not everything is digitized. While I’m constantly amazed at what is available online (my undergraduate thesis, it turns out. Not to mention a lot of my writings I never thought anyone had preserved), I’m annoyed by what isn’t. For historical research I’m doing, an awful lot of books, journals, maps, and newspapers are not available anywhere except in person at the library or historical location.
Google Books is a constant frustration, often giving only some pages out of the book I want, or only a few selected issues of a magazine.
Everyone’s PIN is online assuming they use a 4-digit one. There’s just no telling which one is yours 