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Like DNA or living organisms: digital data has to be kept "live" to truly be secure, replicating itself somewhat regularly. Attempts to store it statically are
by xenadu02 4y ago
Like DNA or living organisms: digital data has to be kept "live" to truly be secure, replicating itself somewhat regularly. Attempts to store it statically are cost-prohibitive or fail at much higher rates than claimed. Worse if the technology is on a down-hill trend because manufacturers focusing on quality are the first to go out of business (higher expenses in a shrinking market).
You can ask the Floppy King about that - near the end of 3.5" floppy manufacturing they saw astronomical rates of failure, 30-50%.
Similarly the quality of CD-Rs definitely took a nose-dive. I'm fairly certain the tail end of "20+ year" CD-R/DVD-R discs won't last as long as claimed but YMMV.
- augusto-moura 4y agoI'm not sure about this being the reality forever. Ever now and then we find some very old scripts or other ancient artifacts containing data from times already forgotten (at least on "basic" human language). If you want something to live eternity just etch the bytes into a stone or print it in some age resistent material. Of course we can still hope on a easily writable medium that would be also very resistant to ageing. Given the right context I even think that information produced by humans can outlive earth itself[1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record