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June 14, 2019

Backup, backup, backup

Storage is never permanent or infallible. Otherwise, we would not offer data recovery services. All hard drives fail eventually and sometimes suddenly. Flash sticks get lost and broken. Servers and the like get hacked or go down for reasons above most people’s pay grade. Even cloud services don’t last forever. So left with no single best solution we must diversify. And by doing so add more complexity to the operation. That’s why we also offer
Everything we disclose to any service, product, site or person online is potentially public. Of course, that is often the point when we post online to social media for example. However too often the supposed secrets like passwords, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc. will leak to the internet. Always consider anything you give to a corporation is potentially public at some point. Even when using encryption there are no perfect solutions and most
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