I think the interesting thing is summarized in this http://getsatisfaction.com/ning/topics/ning_tos_its_our_responsibility_to_backup_sites_ummm_ok_how http://ge

I think the interesting thing is summarized in this http://getsatisfaction.com/ning/topics/ning_tos_its_our_responsibility_to_backup_sites_ummm_ok_how http://getsatisfaction.com/ning/topics/ning_tos_its_our_resp... Unless I've missed it, they say backups are your responsibility and they don't provide a method to backup the data. I do believe data security is the responsibility of whoever is setting up the service. I think it's just one of those things you have to check when you're exposing something to the public, to avoid showing your ass basically. edit : also I think a scrape of only the salient pieces of data on his site, the settings files, would have been the 80/20 on backing up without a policy from ning