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thenbrent
on Dec 31, 2010
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Fannie Mae Unix Engineer Gets 41 Months for Planti...
And as Fannie Mae provided the inside-man with root access to all the main systems, it was apparently just as easy to destroy the backups.
Edit: also in reference to this comment:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054679
InclinedPlane
on Dec 31, 2010
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If root access to systems lets you destroy backups then they cannot rightly be considered backups.
amackera
on Dec 31, 2010
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The Tao of Backup:
http://www.taobackup.com/
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Edit: also in reference to this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2054679