Posted on 04/18/2023 12:30:24 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Disgraced fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried — the notorious SBF — just may be a digital hoarder.
According to a recent Business Insider report, the laptop of the former FTX CEO is flooded with so much data that FBI officials are working overtime to analyze the content.
But SBF is far from alone in his apparent reluctance to depart with copious amounts of data.
In fact, digital hoarding — a subtype of hoarding disorder that involves the collection of, and difficulty parting with, excessive amounts of digital material — is a growing problem in the US and beyond.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM) recognizes hoarding disorder as a mental illness
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“Get rid of your documents while we scrub”
Hard drives are cheap.
But saving everything? Nah. Storage is cheaper than ever but some thing has gots ta go.
You should see my collection of bit buckets! Chock full of 1’s and 0’s....
> Hard drives are cheap.
Absolutely. My time is more expensive than a hard drive.
It sometimes pays big dividends. A client of mine was able to win a six-figure settlement in a lawsuit — as the original DEFENDANT in the case — because I was able to track down an e-mail from 12+ years earlier that completely undermined the plaintiff’s case.
The cost of storage decreases by orders of magnitude per decade. No reason to delete, and plenty of reasons to archive.
What this is about is that the Orwellian memoryhole process doesn’t work when pesky anons keep dredging up awkward statements and data that contradict The Current Thing (tm). If we could just delete the past, they could own the future. Ha.
Someone needs to take out the trash. The "Delete" key brings a sense of freedom. It's no different than anything else - If you don't use it, pitch it.
Keep what you like.
Unlike real life hoarding, it does not smell or attract rats and it drives the government nuts.
These are all good things.
Lol. Another “disorder”. Any way to make a buck.
I saw this when my wife’s work computerized the pharmacy. They keep everything. Forever.
Same with car companies. They keep every bit of data, down to how many turns it takes for an automatic wrench to tighten a bolt and what the torque is recorded. Each step is recorded and gives permission for the next step to proceed.
It doesn’t take up physical space.
Deleting is stupid.
The commies are coming for your hard drive next. They wang to scrub them like Google.
I have 75,000 E-mails spread over 4 accounts. The junk I get is overwhelming.
Id like to know who keeps deleting my memory
I don’t keep any more than 15 messages in my inbox. Delete or folder off if needed later as a rule.
Eventually I will haul the bins of long ago burned discs off for destruction. Almost none of them have been looked at since they were made.
Lemme know if you find 'em cuz the bastard's been after mine too ;-)
I have dozens of hard drives full of my life one dating back to windows 3.1.
Are they recoverable after all these years?
I haven’t tried.
Maybe someday on a trip down memory lane.
Owning a 128 Terabyte NAS makes me guilty by default.
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