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Comment by chatmasta

9 days ago

Nothing increases the risk of servers catching fire like government investigators showing up to investigate allegations that North Korea hacked the servers.

Or investigations into a major financial scandal in a large French bank!

(While the Credit Lyonnais was investigated in the 90s, both the HQ and the site where they stored their archives were destroyed by fire within a few months)

>This file contains the complete set of papers, except for a number of secret documents, a few others which are part of still active files, some correspondence lost in the floods of 1967...

>Was 1967 a particularly bad winter?

>No, a marvellous winter. We lost no end of embarrassing files.