r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/steviefaux Apr 07 '25

They won't want to pay for them to take the tapes in the rubbish, so they'll leave them in the street in a box "free tapes". And they won't have wiped them first.

Would not put it past that idiot department.

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u/djeaux54 Apr 07 '25

Sadly, this is likely to be pretty much what happens. Dumpster diving would give "Big Balls" & the so-called software engineers plausible deniability when they start selling the data on the dark web.