[liberationtech] economic cost of lost emails.

[J.M. Porup]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 02:24, grjm wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:12:11 +0000 (UTC)
> Troy Benjegerdes <hozer at hozed.org> wrote:
> > At my last 'full-time employee' gig, I was at a company that
> > effectively lobotomized themselves with an idiotic "data retention
> > policy". One test engineer had 20 years of email going nearly back to
> > when the company was started, and 'policy' was that it must be
> > deleted.
> 
> There is a lot of history loss going on, despite backups.  I've had
> personal content suddenly disappear from public services and lost many
> many communications due to filtering.  Plus sudden hardware failures
> most of my personal backed up data is just gone now.
> 
> Are there any software projects are out there to resist an eventuality
> of digital book burning?

No. But there should be. Although I fear any such efforts will
probably be futile.

https://www.anamericandissidentinexile.com/blog/2014/01/fahrenheit-72/

Jens

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