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For years my backup strategy has been to compress and encrypt selected files, then send the hex dumps to transmitters in remote locales. Numbers station geeks d
by kmstout 5y ago
For years my backup strategy has been to compress and encrypt selected files, then send the hex dumps to transmitters in remote locales. Numbers station geeks dutifully jot down the data, filling pad after pad. When the data apocalypse befalls us, my recovery strategy will involve traveling far, having adventures, and collecting pages.
- geoffeg 5y agoIs that the precursor to the Linus Torvalds quote? “Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”
- kmstout 5y agoWe clearly need a comic about Real Programmer Man and his exploits.
- cjameskeller 5y agoIsn't that what a decent chunk of xkcd is?
- aspenmayer 5y agoCheck out Radicle. It's like a p2p git. https://radicle.xyz/ https://radicle.xyz/
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI knew there was going to be Ethereum involved.
- squarefoot 5y agoThat's nothing. A friend of a friend of a friend created a program that read encrypted files and spoke each byte, digit by digit, using samples taken from real Russian number stations, then saved the audio file on a USB dongle and "forgot" it in some coffee bar, so that now he has all his files conveniently backed up by a dozen secret service organizations. He says accessing them might be a little problematic, however:^)