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Lots of echo-chamber talk about the same information. I haven't seen any new information since the original postings. My guess is that it would be rather diffi
by jakedata 3y ago
Lots of echo-chamber talk about the same information. I haven't seen any new information since the original postings.
My guess is that it would be rather difficult for even nation-state hackers to demolish the US IRS mainframe-based Individual Master File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Master_File which is still mostly written in Cobol and assembler.
- toyg 3y agoIt would be even harder if it were an actual mountain of archived paper, replicated into a couple of locations. There is something to be said for the safety of outdated practices.
- rasz 3y ago>couple of locations You would start by spreading rumors of impending coordinated multi prong attack at all storage facilities, simultaneously your inside man proposes relocating archives to a safe central location or just sending them all to a recovery facility.
- jakedata 3y agoI expect there are warehouses full of forgotten tapes and punchcards reminiscent of the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- RetroTechie 3y agoOne factor in the cost of such an event is the effort required to restore from backups. Sure, paper is a safe storage medium. But how would one restore from paper backups? Put that mountain of paper through scanners? Doable, yes. But if it takes extreme amount of time and/or people power, then how useful are those backups, really?