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They might be referring to the Warner Brothers disc rot issue announced earlier this year (affecting some mid 2000s dvds). Ideally, things are made well and last a long time when stored properly.

Looks like it does, at least in “private spaces”

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632.html

(I’m assuming that CA means California and not Canada)

Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.

Welcome to the secret robot Internet

And water

We’re all secretly longing for the macbook wheel that was leaked over 15 years ago:

https://youtu.be/9BnLbv6QYcA

Not everything normally needs to be saved. However, in this case it looks like the court ordered them to preserve data during discovery and they did not comply. From the article:

Pichai, and many other employees, also testified they did not change the auto-delete setting even after they were made aware of their legal obligation to preserve evidence.

It is possible that you have a bad infosec team; however, it is more likely that they need to meet outdated compliance goals (SOC 2 comes to mind here).

Infosec is unfortunately a tricky balancing act of compliance, security, and usability.

Cable Internet / DOCSIS splits bandwidth in a way that greatly prioritizes download over upload.

Thanks for the haunted thumbnail. 😂