Some things are lost. Some things will float around forever. Which is which? Nobody knows! So it’s better to act as if the worse option is true — the stuff you don’t want out there will live forever, while anything you might need could be deleted tomorrow.
Yup. And we are talking about NSA sites both internal and external. The internal ones are not now public and never will be. The public’s ability to even understand the breadth and depth of lost work and lost productivity from this order is nonexistent. Toddlers are behind the wheel now.
Say they have a big old file of intelligence bits relating to some Saudi royal. If those terms pop up, does that mean they’re just deleting the entire intelligence file? Will they be able to call up info when they delist it? I have no idea. That’s bad.
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The very vast majority of work from the NSA never leaves the agency.
Things are lost on the internet every day. This whole period will likely be seen as a dark age in another couple hundred years.
I mean, isn't backing up data good practice anyway, in case something bad happens? I should really try it sometime...