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t90fanlast Wednesday at 1:33 AM1 replyview on HN

Things like RDX backup cartridges have a physical write protect lever on them

A few years ago (before affordable cloud backup offerings) this was fairly common for Small Businesses to use, for this reason.


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ameliuslast Wednesday at 8:30 AM

Only works if the software cannot circumvent it (implemented fully in hardware).