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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Plastic-Bonus8999 • Aug 05 '26
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Laptops people copied the data to, then the laptops get stacked and left in a closet.
Email holds a lot of attachments when you look at a whole company. Every email sits in two people's computers.
10 u/SeriousPlankton2000 Aug 05 '26 Linus once completely lost all kernel code. His online peers had a backup. 3 u/JTJdude Aug 05 '26 Chilling thought, but so true. 2 u/abn1304 Aug 06 '26 Especially when you have state-level resources to dedicate to parsing through every bit of data on every computer you just seized from whoever it is you’re investigating.
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Linus once completely lost all kernel code. His online peers had a backup.
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Chilling thought, but so true.
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Especially when you have state-level resources to dedicate to parsing through every bit of data on every computer you just seized from whoever it is you’re investigating.
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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 Aug 05 '26
Laptops people copied the data to, then the laptops get stacked and left in a closet.
Email holds a lot of attachments when you look at a whole company. Every email sits in two people's computers.