On Sun, Aug 24, 2014, at 02:24, grjm wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 17:12:11 +0000 (UTC) > Troy Benjegerdes <[email protected]> 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 -- J.M. Porup www.JMPorup.com -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
