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Adii gets extra points for flying literally halfway across the world to deliver a scheduled talk mere hours after discovering a) hackers have completely comprom
by patio11 15y ago
Adii gets extra points for flying literally halfway across the world to deliver a scheduled talk mere hours after discovering a) hackers have completely compromised all production servers and b) in the process, discovered the SSH keys for the servers the backups were stored on, and then used them to log in and wipe them. A good portion of the importance-of-team part of the talk was how you manage to get folks where you can trust them to take care of that stuff for you.
- pja 15y agoAnd this is one of the reasons why tape backup (or any other offline backup) still matters. Looks like they lost about 2 weeks of data, but at least they still have a business.