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Can't imagine how this went down in person. Group of police turn up and tell you that they're going to destroy all your working media. How would you even go abo
by nwh 13y ago
Can't imagine how this went down in person. Group of police turn up and tell you that they're going to destroy all your working media. How would you even go about authenticating such a ridiculous claim?
It's like they've never heard of off-site backups.
- einhverfr 13y agoI don't think getting rid of data was the point.
- jacquesm 13y agoThink of this as 'sending a message'. It's backfiring spectacularly but the intended goal was evidently not the destruction of data, they can't be that stupid.
- Terretta 13y agoIn all seriousness, though, reading about the smashed MacBook Pro has me reviewing our Chubb business operations and equipment insurance. It excludes acts of terrorism and terrorism related activity. If jackboots show up demanding to physically demolish servers in any of our dozen datacenters around the world, claiming Section 7 or Patriot Act, will our insurance replace them? A government's categorization of data as terror related could quickly put a cloud provider out hundreds of thousands or millions (mass video storage is expensive) in unrecoverable costs. We're covered for business continuity if the DMCA or SOPA troops show up and make off with servers like with Mega. But looks like we're not covered if the insurance company can prove a government called the destruction terror related. Ugh.
- nwh 13y agoIf the iTunes agreement contains a clause about not using it to make nuclear weapons (it does), you can be sure as anything most insurance policies are void if you lose things to government action. I had a flick through mine some time ago, the only ones I can remember are falling spacecraft and floods.
- hahainternet 13y agoIt's also like you didn't read the article.