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Whatever was in those emails wasn't important enough for them to unencrypt them in a durable fashion, or put the keys in a safe with the gold bars. We call thi
by m3047 10mo ago
Whatever was in those emails wasn't important enough for them to unencrypt them in a durable fashion, or put the keys in a safe with the gold bars.
We call this the "scream test" in BOFH land.
- mmooss 10mo agoIt wasn't important enough at the time to the BOFH.
- yardstick 10mo agoWho knew I’d need to do this? I’d never needed to do this either my emails in the decades prior. You’ve also got no idea what was in those emails. Could be some valuable knowledge or logs about some crazy rare bug or scenario, and would be useful to review today. We just turned on S/MIME by default, to “be secure”, whatever that means. There was no warning in the email client about losing access to the email if you lost your keys. Citing BOFH is all well and good inside certain circles. In the real world, people don’t like spending time or effort on poorly thought out and implemented solutions.
- m3047 10mo agoThe keys aren't in the backups you still have? IOW: who owns the backups owns the data... until proven otherwise. My default presumption from space is that 1) there are document management policies and 2) document management policies apply.