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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by sneak on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:32PM (#45487108)
It's 2025. Encryption is a thing now. You can store anything you want on foreign cloud storage. I'd give my backups to the FSB.
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by justinclift on Monday October 06, 2025 @12:37AM (#45487677)
> I'd give my backups to the FSB.

Until you need them - like with the article here ;) - then the FSB says "only if you do these specific favours for us first...".

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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by Cthulhu_ on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:33AM (#45490229)
There's certifications too, which you don't get unless you conform to for example EU data protection laws. On paper anyway. But these have opened up Amazon and Azure to e.g. Dutch government agencies, the tax office will be migrating to Office365 for example.
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Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system... by tirant on Monday October 06, 2025 @08:10AM (#45490505)
Encryption does not ensure any type of availability.
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