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

[aldabra]

2. How can you have a data structure that doesn't allow for backups? Why wouldn't a recursive search-and-copy work? I mean, I am right now trying to design a backup approach for some software we are using and it doesn't work in the places where we can't see and don't own the proprietary data "structures" they are using, but the Korean government presumably could in principle see what they were working with? Those 750,000 civil servants are saving files in a directory structure? You can traverse that.

Re: 1.

[channelpenguin]

Very important. Means it's provably real, can be detected with high confidence and has a plausible mechanism that might be amenable to treatment. This could definitely be helpful for those dealing with disbeliving doctors, employers and insurers. Should. I hope, anyway.

[channelpenguin]

2. That's not Cloud Storage, that's On-Prem

[bens_dad]

Unless they have a very fast network, there may be (possibly unreliable) caches of data nearer to the users.
Whether reliable data can be reconstructed from these (whether quickly or cost effectively) may be less clear.

[mountainkiss]

I love how “pandemic brain disease” can equally credibly be three tags or one.

[symbioid]

I misread "Fire destroys Karen's cloud storage" and thought "That's what you get for being a Karen!"

(But not the "Karen People" who are a tribe in Myanmar)

[greenwoodside]

2. Eep. About eight years ago, I took a module on digital preservation.

Apparently the Korean government didn't.

And someone must have really hurried through the risk assessment.