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    UnderLoK: I wonder how many people lost their jobs over this? It's an oddity how many IT folks preach about backups, disaster recovery, and the like yet walk b... more »
    Duckspwn:Loves Approving Reds: This makes me angry. No, I'm not mad at the companies involved. I'm mad at the massive toddler bitchfit that resulted from this outage. Give me a brea... more »
    Kaiser-Machead: That's provided all of those SK owners out there haven't already gnawed their phones in half. #sidekickdatarecovered more »
    fuchikoma: And the backup tapes? So... assuming that was technically possible, part of the timebomb then looked and functioned like the backup software, but eras... more »
    SigmundTheSeaMonster: Aha! I see the same folks that wrote the Guest Login Erase bug for Snow Leopard, work at a Microsoft Data Center! more »
    axiomatic: I Can't Stand It, I Know You Planned It Ima Set It Straight, This Watergate I Can't Stand Rockin' When I'm In Here 'Cause Your Crystal Ball Ain't So C... more »
    UnderLoK: As others have touched on; more likely the backups were garbage and they had a failure which they couldn’t recover from. This kind of thing happens... more »
    DrunkenOstrich: I call BS. A service with this many users and this much historical data would likely be spread across MANY backup tapes. So the timebomb not only wi... more »
    zaghy2zy: ahuh? erased backup tapes? and how exactly could that happen? as far as i know, backup tapes are to be kept off site once backup is complete. Or at l... more »
    dimes: Hahahahha, don't ascribe to Evil what you can easily be explained by stupidity and negligence....or however the saying goes. It doesn't have to be so... more »
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