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3rd way: only store what is absolutely necessary, purge when not required anymore. (And if you are trying to sell me some webmail or photo gallery service, why

by jlg23 5y ago

3rd way: only store what is absolutely necessary, purge when not required anymore. (And if you are trying to sell me some webmail or photo gallery service, why do you need my shoe size anyway?)

calvinmorrison 5y ago
Yeah, at least for government stuff, use cold storage. Put things on microfiche with reference numbers or whatever
- nexuist 5y ago
  Use SD cards. You can fit probably a petabyte of information in a typical storage cabinet. If the environment is controlled, I don't think you'd run into problems with data corruption or being unable to read data. And to hedge against that, you could just duplicate the data onto multiple SD cards, and store them in different areas - sort of like AWS AZ's.
varikin 5y ago
This idea already applied in some companies in regards to limiting legal risk. I use to work for a backup company and one customer was a very large software company. This customer wanted to custom version retention that basically deleted previous version of files 2 weeks after it was deleted on the user's computer. Most other customers wanted the exact opposite. But you can provide documents to courts if they were removed under the standard policy. Of course, once a lawsuit was underway, many backups were placed under legal hold and no longer pruned old versions.
dylan604 5y ago
>why do you need my shoe size anyway? You won't tell us your mother's maiden name or the street you grew up on any more, so now we're trying new questions. Have no fear, it's all for your security.
ben_w 5y ago
Yup. I think this is a case where “all of the above” is the best answer. Store less data, store it better, and make loss of control of that data less important. Although we can’t store nothing, and we can’t store anything perfectly, and we can’t make everything legal, we should try to maximise each of these objectives.

by jlg23 5y ago

3rd way: only store what is absolutely necessary, purge when not required anymore. (And if you are trying to sell me some webmail or photo gallery service, why do you need my shoe size anyway?)

calvinmorrison 5y ago

Yeah, at least for government stuff, use cold storage. Put things on microfiche with reference numbers or whatever

nexuist 5y ago
Use SD cards. You can fit probably a petabyte of information in a typical storage cabinet. If the environment is controlled, I don't think you'd run into problems with data corruption or being unable to read data. And to hedge against that, you could just duplicate the data onto multiple SD cards, and store them in different areas - sort of like AWS AZ's.

varikin 5y ago

This idea already applied in some companies in regards to limiting legal risk. I use to work for a backup company and one customer was a very large software company. This customer wanted to custom version retention that basically deleted previous version of files 2 weeks after it was deleted on the user's computer. Most other customers wanted the exact opposite. But you can provide documents to courts if they were removed under the standard policy. Of course, once a lawsuit was underway, many backups were placed under legal hold and no longer pruned old versions.

dylan604 5y ago

>why do you need my shoe size anyway? You won't tell us your mother's maiden name or the street you grew up on any more, so now we're trying new questions. Have no fear, it's all for your security.

ben_w 5y ago

Yup. I think this is a case where “all of the above” is the best answer. Store less data, store it better, and make loss of control of that data less important. Although we can’t store nothing, and we can’t store anything perfectly, and we can’t make everything legal, we should try to maximise each of these objectives.