> it was a Saturday which, before I had kids, used to be my favourite day at the library
And then Pay wall…
Hadn’t even heard about this. With an archive that large automation/digitisation would be a big boon, glad they still have the manual means to access it all though.
Can’t help thinking it’s a bit remiss of anyone with any sort of database of PII to not treat it as a honey pot, and thus only a matter of time ’til you’re next, however smart your users are. Why in 2024 would you not have anything mission-critical that could benefit from being encrypted (such as staff/HR data etc) encrypted and regularly backed up to multiple sites?
Thank you for sharing this article. It was an insightful read. I cannot imagine how frustrating this must be for researchers, not to mention doctoral and other graduate students, whose research projects (and careers) are practically in stasis. In a publish or perish job sector, this is a nightmare.
Probably a failed, evil mastermind did it. Can’t do anything else, we’ll shuffle their books. That’ll show em.
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> it was a Saturday which, before I had kids, used to be my favourite day at the library
And then Pay wall…
Hadn’t even heard about this. With an archive that large automation/digitisation would be a big boon, glad they still have the manual means to access it all though.
Can’t help thinking it’s a bit remiss of anyone with any sort of database of PII to not treat it as a honey pot, and thus only a matter of time ’til you’re next, however smart your users are. Why in 2024 would you not have anything mission-critical that could benefit from being encrypted (such as staff/HR data etc) encrypted and regularly backed up to multiple sites?
Thank you for sharing this article. It was an insightful read. I cannot imagine how frustrating this must be for researchers, not to mention doctoral and other graduate students, whose research projects (and careers) are practically in stasis. In a publish or perish job sector, this is a nightmare.
Probably a failed, evil mastermind did it. Can’t do anything else, we’ll shuffle their books. That’ll show em.