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Has Achieved Nirvana |
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...rom-western-digital/
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
 I don't use this kind of storage, but ugh, this is my worst nightmare. (If I lost all of my research data...)
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Minor Deity |
Off site, unconnected..backup backup backup. Just sayin'. 
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
I have an external Hard Drive connected by USB, constantly doing backups (though not through the system described.) Should I disconnect it so that backups are only occasional at my discretion? This is a response to general hacking, not just this situation.
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Has Achieved Nirvana |
Next up - Bitcoin!
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity |
Indeed!! I have my data in cloud and physical storage/back-up so I should be ok. But you can’t be too careful!!
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Minor Deity |
Different architecture. Bitcoin block chains are distributed across a multitude of systems across the Internet; the last estimate I saw says 83,000 nodes. Someone has to delete all 83,000 copies scattered across the Internet or take more subtle control over a little over half of them to alter Bitcoin’s distributed ledger.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
Which is not to say that a couple of them couldn't be hacked (it's happened before) such that a lot of people lose a whole lot of money.
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Indeed. There was a recent Bitcoin scam that I think involved $3 billion, with a B. I do some blockchain work so this is of more than casual interest to me. | |||
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