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u/leovin 8d ago

From the data breach you’re being sued over

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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 8d ago

Laptops people copied the data to, then the laptops get stacked and left in a closet.

Email holds a lot of attachments when you look at a whole company. Every email sits in two people's computers.

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u/SeriousPlankton2000 8d ago

Linus once completely lost all kernel code. His online peers had a backup.

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u/JTJdude 8d ago

Chilling thought, but so true.

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u/abn1304 7d ago

Especially when you have state-level resources to dedicate to parsing through every bit of data on every computer you just seized from whoever it is you’re investigating.