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South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke (www.tomshardware.com)
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It's a fairly safe bet that on any given day, at least a good dozen IT departments are trying to convince their bosses and/or users about the vital importance of backups. Unfortunately, it seems that the argument was lost in the South Korean government, as the institution has completely lost the sizable amount of 858 terabytes of data, with 0 bytes of backups.

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[–] Beacon@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

And also Occam's razor, for this to be done on purpose would require a vast plot including hundreds of people doing it for years.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the political developments of the past decade or so have comprehensively proven that Hanlon's razor is total bullshit.

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't see how that fits. The events of the past decade can't be adequately explained by stupidity alone

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And yet it's constantly being invoked to excuse the perpetrators of malice.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not sure about that. In principle, it only takes one crazy idiot with a molotov cocktail to get rid of your datacenter, as long as the fire prevention systems are shit off.

So let's say, it takes two people

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

I meant the entire country purposely not having any backups for years is what would take a ton of people acting conspiratorially

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you understand how inept government or law enforcement is... demonstrably... with centuries of evidence...

Insurance fraud and corruption ARE the simplest explanation for a lot of these kinds of "accidents".

Which is more likely? Many people failing to do their jobs, or a small corrupt few going, "whoopsie!"?

[–] Beacon@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

If they're that inept then they wouldn't have been able to pull off this vast plot that includes hundreds of people doing it over many years