Posted on 05/31/2024 12:27:33 PM PDT by Red Badger
Like Google Maps telling you to take a left, then take a left, then take a left, then take a left, ad infinitum.
Had that happen to me more than once.
And with a bigger hard drive.
If you don’t have the data on your own computers, you don’t own it.
I can restore any data that existed on my computer at at 3AM on any of the following dates. You’d think that a trillion dollar company could do better...
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I work in cybersecurity. One of the domains is disaster recovery which is the ability to recover compute and recover data. There has been a disturbing trend in the last 5 to 10 years to “trust the cloud”. Folks, the need for backups does not go away just because your systems are “in the cloud”. “cloud” is not some magic wand that makes all of your problems go away.
I actually took part in a disaster recovery drill where we rebuilt our data center at an offsite location. It didn’t go that well for me, as the tape drive hardware we were given to use was different from ours, and they didn’t have the drivers. Whoops.
If the account had been completely erased including all copies would that mean that Google has expropriated the fund. It is all funnymunny I suppose but could google have transferred the funds to itself as the “erasure” was done? Then again if all the accounts google holds were to be erased it would go a piece toward lowering inflation?
“Anyone who would design a system that was this vulnerable should not be in IT!”
UniSuper had backups, stored them at a different site, with a different service, and restored successfully from those backups. So props to their IT team. They had a system and a plan.
But shame on Google’s team for a flaw this bad.
$135 billion here, $135 billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
And that is how easy the government is going be able to make your money disappear after they switch all currency to digital.
It’s good to have your own backups, either locally or with another “cloud” service. I can easily imagine some bean-counters saying “it’s too expensive to have a second backup system, Google knows what it’s doing”.
On a separate point, was having the field in question blank even valid, given its disastrous effect? If not, why wasn’t there an error message when the configuration was applied? (Or a warning, if the blankness was valid but unusual?)
“The Cloud is safe!..............”
What is One Drive? Is that a cloud?
I believe so........
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