These systems all have disaster recovery plans. We can’t possibly know how competent their admins are or how up to date their backups are. But it’s not our job to know this. Debating details isn’t the point, and there’s zero amount of online discussion that will make the worry and anxiety go away. Just remember there are backups and be calm.
Personally I know that media companies, who use their content to sell ads, will not protect me from this “worry and anxiety denial of service” that’s going on. They sell more ads when people doom scroll. So I have to protect myself. I want you to protect yourself as well.
I try to recognize when there are things I can’t do anything about, but that I know good people are still working to protect.
I wish this was all true, I really do. But there is a time and a place to be calm. This is not that time, and this is not that place.
These systems are supposed to have COOP plans (Continuity of Operations), but not all of them do. Systems are supposed to have some degree of backups, but I can tell you from experience that this is almost never the case in any meaningful way.
I’ve spoken to a number of feds who said their work disappeared overnight. They didn’t choose to comply, and didn’t have sufficient backups in place because of a lack of resources. Their manager or an administrative assistant somewhere most likely went on a deletion spree, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.
Sometimes when this stuff is gone, it’s really gone. And we have every right to be furious about it.
100% agree about the media incentives, but sometimes outrage is not only warranted, but essential.
Most backups are not kept around long enough to still be available 4 years from now and even if they were you would lose any data entered in those 4 years if you restored from backups. Backups will not protect you from deliberate malicious changes.
Judges can act.
Only in very limited ways if the other two branches of government are complicit since judges (at least the regular kind not on the supreme court which has been captured too) really can’t do anything directly opposing the body of written law.
Very bad
