alt Hacker News> For many years this system served well
Surely don't need to ditch the whole system then and just needs a better kill-switch.
> For many years this system served well
Surely don't need to ditch the whole system then and just needs a better kill-switch.
Backups, illicit and otherwise do happen, far easier for digital archives than for paper ones. There is a version of Murphy's law for data that probably should go something like 'the data you want to get rid of lasts forever and the data you want to keep evaporates at the first inconvenience'.