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Take a wild guess: how many backups these mere 4000 TB already have all across the EU? I'd say at least 8, maybe 20. Even if Europol miraculously agrees to del
by pdimitar 5y ago
Take a wild guess: how many backups these mere 4000 TB already have all across the EU? I'd say at least 8, maybe 20.
Even if Europol miraculously agrees to delete one ZFS data pool, the other N-1 remain. So yeah, it's a PR theater. Pretty sure that the moment they found out what EDPS knows, a few sysadmins were ordered not to sleep until a big redundancy ratio has been achieved.
But it's still VERY impressive that a discussion about the tradeoffs between privacy and security is possible. That's a huge plus (if the discussion comes to being in the first place but still).
- mqus 5y agoWhy do you think a legal order will only target a single copy, obviously all related data have to be deleted. Anything else would not make any sense. If Europol only deletes "one data pool" then it could just as well say that it will not abide.
- pdimitar 5y agoWhat I mean is: why should we believe them if they say "OK we deleted all copies"? How do we even validate that? I'm very cynical towards intelligence agencies. They will not let go of what they perceive as valuable intel. Would love to be proven wrong but I don't see how. They can claim anything and everything and do something else where nobody is looking.