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Could you imagine if we treated other pieces of technology the same way backup fanatics talk about backups? It's your fault for not having 2 extra phones on yo
by admax88qqq 3y ago
Could you imagine if we treated other pieces of technology the same way backup fanatics talk about backups?
It's your fault for not having 2 extra phones on you in case your phone bricks itself at a bad time.
It's your fault for not encrypting your signal messages by hand, encryption bugs aren't a big deal, if they're a big deal to you, it's because you're trusting a system with a single point of failure, and the consequences of that inevitable failure are not acceptable to you. Stop doing that.
Your position sounds insane to me of applied to any other piece of technology
- jcalvinowens 3y agoEquating a filesystem corruption with bricking a device shows you don't get it. Filesystems are ephemeral: all I have to do after a corruption is reinstall the system, and it's as good as new. You also missed the most important part of what I said: >> because you're trusting a system with a single point of failure, and the consequences of that inevitable failure are not acceptable to you. I don't care if my phone fails: it's disposable. Sure, there are times it might be inconvenient, but it's not like I need it to drive my car or get into my house. If your phone failing is some huge big horrible problem for you, yeah, you absolutely ought to carry two phones around. It's unreasonable to expect consumer grade technology to be that reliable.
- Too 3y agoPhone failing is a temporary inconvenience solved by getting a new one. Backups failing mean 15 years of family photo memories forever lost. Risk mitigations should reasonably scale in proportion to the cost of loss.