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singularineet t1_j0ub3je wrote

Reply to comment by Good_Beautiful1724 in Amazon 'Saved the Ukrainian Government' With Suitcase-Sized Hard Drives by Mynameis__--__

I'd imagine it was encrypted. There are encryption schemes that allow k-of-n parties to decrypt, which makes the recovery damage resistant but still secure against a small number (<k) traitors.

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Good_Beautiful1724 t1_j0ud0gd wrote

An information security plan consist of multiple layers.

If it starts with 'it's physically located in a place where another country can pull the plug' then the plan for your secret services' datacenter simply dies then and there...

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singularineet t1_j0ue8gw wrote

If the storage system itself is outside your security perimeter, you need encryption.

If you're worried about the reliability of the storage system, you need redundancy. In this case, multiple copies in clouds all over the world.

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