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Re:Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logi... by thenbrent on Friday December 31, 2010 @01:37AM (#2054747)
And as Fannie Mae provided the inside-man with root access to all the main systems, it was apparently just as easy to destroy the backups.

Edit: also in reference to this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054679

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Re:Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logi... by InclinedPlane on Friday December 31, 2010 @01:43AM (#2054768)
If root access to systems lets you destroy backups then they cannot rightly be considered backups.
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Re:Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planting Logi... by amackera on Friday December 31, 2010 @10:41AM (#2055603)
The Tao of Backup: http://www.taobackup.com/
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