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		DarkmSparks 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage... Encryption only protects data for an unknown period of time, not indefinately.

mikehotel 6 months ago [–]

If your threat model includes the TLA types, then backup to a physical server you control in a location geographically isolated from your main location. Or to a local set of drives that you physically rotate to remote locations.

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