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

Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by kspacewalk2 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:28PM (#45484954)

Am I missing something? If you ever need to use this data, obviously you transfer it back to your premises and then decrypt it. Whether it's stored at Amazon or North Korean Government Cloud makes no difference whatsoever if you encrypt before and decrypt after transfer.

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by oceansky on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:38PM (#45485028)

They can take the data hostage, the foreign nation would have no recourse.

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by Imustaskforhelp on Sunday October 05, 2025 @07:30PM (#45486188)

Have it in multiple countries with multiple providers if money isn't a concern.

And are we forgetting that they can literally have a multi cloud backup setup in their own country as well or incentivize companies to build their datacenters there in partnership with them of sorts with a multi cloud setup as I said earlier?

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by DarkmSparks on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:35PM (#45485004)

Encryption only protects data for an unknown period of time, not indefinately.

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by mikehotel on Sunday October 05, 2025 @04:40PM (#45485037)

If your threat model includes the TLA types, then backup to a physical server you control in a location geographically isolated from your main location. Or to a local set of drives that you physically rotate to remote locations.

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