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.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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.
mspencer712@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Judges can act.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
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.