Government Builds Free Cloud-Based Backup for an Ungrateful Nation

by isbn on 7/9/2013, 2:52 PM with 23 comments
  • by cemerick on 7/9/2013, 3:26 PM

    Medium, a better place to read things…that show up in the bathroom stalls at the Onion? And, on the HN frontpage, apparently.

  • by ddoolin on 7/9/2013, 3:33 PM

    Cute, yes. I'm honestly confused on why some others are complaining about the satirical nature of the piece. Seems just what some people might need at this point...

  • by ck2 on 7/9/2013, 3:37 PM

    I've been wondering why hard drive prices haven't gone down to pre-flood prices.

    Apparently the NSA has been buying every platter available via unlimited taxpayer dollars.

    Sounds like a joke but think about it...

  • by chiph on 7/9/2013, 3:37 PM

    I've been using this service for a while now, but haven't been able to get a restore to work. My data comes back with large parts of it blacked out -- no idea why. Has anyone else been able to do a successful restore?

  • by mtgx on 7/9/2013, 3:47 PM

    > "safely stores all American’s phone and email contacts so that they can be retrieved at any time in the future"

    Right. I know it's a joke, but this type of joke is starting to get on my nerves, considering how far from reality it is.

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/06/1221694/-NSA-Reject...

  • by haxxorfreak on 7/9/2013, 3:39 PM

    Not that I condone the NSA's practices in any way but it's interesting to think of how some of this data might serve as a historical record of our daily lives in the future.

    Never before have there been such detailed records of public and private communications, websites, photos and who knows what else the NSA has flagged for "permanent storage." Archive.org could only dream of having so much ephemeral data and the capacity to store it.

  • by ChrisAntaki on 7/9/2013, 3:32 PM

    >> A few thousand Americans are currently enrolled in a beta phase version of the program that would successfully backup all of their data.

    That beta program went live in 2006. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/

  • by cagenut on 7/9/2013, 3:32 PM

    Interesting example of how not having the title in the url hurts share-ability (even though that was originally done for seo). I pasted this link to friends, but had to provide a followup paste of the title.

  • by pvnick on 7/9/2013, 3:47 PM

    Thanks Obama!

  • by mrt0mat0 on 7/9/2013, 4:12 PM

    a lot of my friends knew nothing about the NSA illegalities going on. if they read this, they probably wouldn't get that it's a joke. They'd start searching for the sign up page online... i need new friends

  • by confusedev on 7/9/2013, 3:49 PM

    * Nations

  • by bobwaycott on 7/9/2013, 3:31 PM

    Medium offering up satire?

    What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".

  • by dllthomas on 7/9/2013, 3:30 PM

    Cute.