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‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases
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this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2025
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Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.
Judges can act.
Only in very limited ways if the other two branches of government are complicit since judges (at least the regular kind not on the supreme court which has been captured too) really can't do anything directly opposing the body of written law.