Interesting Links for 06-10-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Scientists Reveal Biological Basis of Long Covid Brain Fog

(tags:Pandemic brain disease )

2. Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

(tags:Korea data epicfail backup )

3. Disastrous South Korean data centre fire is connected to North Korean hacking

(tags:NorthKorea korea hacking sabotage )

Comments

[simont]

I agree that encryption is part of the solution. Even so, the encryption key also needs to be backed up, and then you need to try to arrange that the offsite copies of the key and the encrypted data at least aren't stored together, and ideally, stored in such very different places that it would be really hard to get at both together.

But also, encryption is even more likely than ordinary data storage to be misunderstood by either politicians or the people they're trying to impress, leading to misguided attempts to interfere!