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‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases (www.404media.co)
submitted 23 hours ago by chobeat@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 31 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

These systems all have disaster recovery plans. We can’t possibly know how competent their admins are or how up to date their backups are. But it’s not our job to know this. Debating details isn’t the point, and there’s zero amount of online discussion that will make the worry and anxiety go away. Just remember there are backups and be calm.

Personally I know that media companies, who use their content to sell ads, will not protect me from this “worry and anxiety denial of service” that’s going on. They sell more ads when people doom scroll. So I have to protect myself. I want you to protect yourself as well.

I try to recognize when there are things I can’t do anything about, but that I know good people are still working to protect.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Judges can act.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 22 hours ago

Very bad