Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system...
by notpushkin on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:06PM
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Yeah, but also consider that maybe not every agency of South Korea needs this level of protection?
Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system...
by southernplaces7 on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:31AM
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This is a nation state in a state of perpetual tension, formal war and persistent attempts at sabotage by a notoriously paranoid and unscrupulous next-door enemy totalitarian/crime family state.
SK should have no shortage of motive or much trouble (it's an extremely wealthy country with a very well-funded, sophisticated government apparatus) implementing its own version of hardcore data security for backups.
Short of you copying an encrypted file from the server onto a local trusted Linux distro (with no Intel ME on the machine), airgapping yourself, entering the decryption passphrase from a piece of paper (written by hand, never printed), with no cameras in the room, accessing what you need, and then securely wiping the machine without un-airgapping, you will most likely be tripping through several CIA-backdoored things.
Basically, the extreme level of digital OPSEC maintained by OBL is probably the bare minimum if your adversary is the state machinery of the United States or China.