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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5614361" data-attributes="member: 54877">Here is another. 90% to 95% of all security breaches of any consequence are caused by a person screwing up. Not hardware, not procedures not being in place, not outside events, not a really clever criminal--just a person screwing up. Good security procedures take this into account, on the basis of a "chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and our weakest link is most definitely people." But I say that because I've found in my work in IT that this applies to more than just security. Backups and disaster recovery (DRA) in general are equally susceptible. Sure, a lot of your stuff in the cloud, backed up in some data center, with redundant hardware, hardened bunkers, and backup files shipped regularly far enough away to avoid local earthquakes, tornados, floods, and hurricanes--will still be there. Probably. However, of all the people relying on that infrastructure, a sizable number of them are going to be unpleasantly surprised to learn that junior backup delivery guy dumped the Friday files in a damp warehouse every week. Or those automated scheduling jobs to do the backups didn't actually run for 7 months in late 2012 because some guy set up the passwords wrong, and thus you have some empty backups. Or that your data got corrupted due to a change in format or encryption when it was sent, because some guy didn't test properly. Knowing this, of course, you can find ways around it. You can backup with three different such centers, do some backup of the most critical stuff your self, test regularly to verify that you can get it all back out, and so forth. Your chances of being one of the ones left out in the cold will then be trivial. Not many people are going to do that for a gaming article.  I've done some of this stuff for a living off and on in my career, which is why I mostly agree with Danny. Well, that and I just don't want my data following me everywhere I go. That means that someone can call/text/annoy me at lunch and expect an answer Right Now! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> I think people have been saved from themselves at times by information being perishable. It makes us think a second about what is worth keeping. There is a book that I really like, G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday," that I've lost six times. I've lost it in a move. I've lost it loaning it. I've lost it in the blackhole where slim paperbacks disappear. And I've always replaced it, because I know I like it. In contrast, I've lost a bunch of printed and electronic media through the years that I haven't missed all that much. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/angel.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":angel:" title="Angel    :angel:" data-shortname=":angel:" /> I do wish books would go back to using hemp for paper, like they did before the 60's--though I hear that the new bamboo pulping process may produce something similar. A lot of the books published in the 60s and 70s were too perishable, and the stuff since then is only marginally better, due to paper coating. I've got some books printed between 1890 and 1940 that were ill-treated before I got them used, but still in very good shape.</blockquote>

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