The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience.
There’s backups of backups of everything now. I guess if the people in charge want to do it, they could security delete everything, but a random guy won’t be able to, which is what happened in 1940.
I really hope that’s as true as you say since Trump has deleted millions of documents from government databases, tons of which contained invaluable information.
And this time you can’t just go to the archives and burn it down like they did in 1940.
Well, you can, and in someway it is easier…
I mean, machines need maintenance, what if someone made a misstake and uploaded a script that would make subtle changes to the database over time?
Changing a 2 to a 3 or an A to a K and so on slowly over time, you don’t have to burn everything, but make it too unreliable to use…
There’s backups of backups of everything now. I guess if the people in charge want to do it, they could security delete everything, but a random guy won’t be able to, which is what happened in 1940.
no. A lot of agencies and firms have not learned that lesson yet. several lost decades of data in that Tietoevry problem: https://www.dn.se/sverige/20-ar-av-data-borta-hackarna-kom-at-sakerhetskopior/
https://www.msb.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/2025/mars/msb-rapport-visar-manga-it-incidenter-orsakas-fortfarande-av-systemfel-eller-misstag/
I really hope that’s as true as you say since Trump has deleted millions of documents from government databases, tons of which contained invaluable information.