Nine PBS is afraid that it will lose over 70 years of archival materials and programming after its contracted cloud storage vendor has apparently gone out of business. According to Current, the channel used Open Source Storage, or OSS, for storing over 50TB of data — but it suddenly lost access to its data earlier this year. Nine PBS has been working with OSS and its predecessor since 2019 and intended to renew its contract on March 6 of this year. The company never responded and abruptly cut off the station’s data access even though it still had 30 days to retrieve its data after the contract ended.
The station dug a little bit deeper when it discovered that the OSS website no longer existed and was listed as delinquent under the Colorado Secretary of State. It also discovered that OSS utilized Iron Mountain’s services, so it sent a demand letter to the latter to preserve its data and to “pay any reasonable costs associated with its demand.” At the time, Iron Mountain did not confirm or deny that it possessed Nine PBS’ data.
no it’s not… you’re thinking of stuff being restored but that doesn’t account for neglect and straight up theft of your information from these unsecure criminal companies like microslop
Not to mention Microsoft has 400 forced copies of the same useless thing for work saved on multiple desktops that are not on my damn computer and need to be downloaded.
Fuck it shits me
That’s a different conversation.
But you can encrypt at rest the data you store in the cloud (with keys your provider doesn’t have) without a lot of trouble.