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Bit rot. If my backups aren’t redundant and I don’t care to access something for long enough, it eventually becomes inaccessible to others. Full-disk encryptio
by Arubis 4y ago
Bit rot. If my backups aren’t redundant and I don’t care to access something for long enough, it eventually becomes inaccessible to others.
Full-disk encryption from your OS vendor (FileVault, LUKS, whatever windows does) will accelerate this process.
- armitron 4y agoCan you elaborate? Why would FDE or inactivity accelerate bit rot?
- williamscales 4y agoI can take a stab without really knowing for sure, I would guess that flipping a bit of the ciphertext would have much greater consequences than flipping a bit of the plaintext.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI could also argue it makes bitrot more detectable though.
- Arubis 4y agoIt greatly raises the magnitude of consequences of not maintaining data access. Whole swathes vanish at a stroke, be it a flipped bit or a key forgotten or lost due to disuse.