I have crossed this MANY times already -- There is a chance where you'll HAVE to log in through faceID and Microsoft etc can deny your access just over your browser history. (The technology will be popularized after people start vanishing over their browser and download history)
So if you happen to stay in a site like Russia Today or InfoWars (examples for more than a few weeks), you'll sooner or later be unable to even log in as your PC recognizes YOU as a threat.
If you have any given records of something, please create PAPER COPIES and bury them in a ceramic trunk under the basement of your home. Not Digital Backup Copies. You don't know when you'll be completely unable to access them by the drop of a hat.
I’m more worried about a solar flare destroying my hard drive than my off-the-web windows 7 computer suddenly updating, but you give a good reminder anyway. Also ceramic box, nice call.
Why UNDER a ceramic box?
Idk. Was assuming he meant in one no under one, so it’s not detected by a metal detector. Another idea would be to put a buncha scrap metal shallow underneath the soil to thwart metal detector. “Oh dang, it’s just a buncha trash. Moving on.”
Cool thanks for replying. Both great ideas.
Technically illiterate, dumb post.
There are thousands of open source operating systems and BIOS’s that can be used to access files on common hardware.
The issue with digital copies is solar flares, not software.
Gun them down. They won't hold back.
If you are printing out decades of emails and receipts and burying them, I think it's long pass time you switched over to Linux.
Digital records are physical records, it's just written in binary on a hard disk rather than ink on paper. Nobody has the power, let alone Microsoft, to make that binary inaccessible. Damage to the hard drive itself is the danger to digital records. Hence the need for backups.
Get away from Windows and Apple. Free yourself from such worries. Linux Mint and Linux Majaro are both really good.
You are naive to believe that Linux won't be joining into the train, and your assumptions are based on that.
They can, they are and they WILL.
You'll soon see the trustworthy Yandex (Russians) and DuckDuckGO (Microsoft) turn against you, and what makes you believe Linux is an exception? I've hung out with Freenode (Which is related to Linux development) a decade ago and the people there are the most disturbingly far-left people I ever seen.
Ultimately, all software is an abstraction of hardware.
Systemd is now spyware. Also lookup the “Ken Thompson hack”.
i have physical hard copies in file cabinets of all of this stuff as well ;)