Why can’t a non-profit with a community board run these types of services? Like Wikipedia.
1. Self-hosted by me
2. Stored by a for-profit company I am paying
3. Stored by a megacorp
4. Stored by a non-profit
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2 and 3 have an economic incentive not to lose my data, and have money to pay for decent engineers. 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager
2 and 3 have absolutely no incentive not to lose your data. When was the last time any company got seriously hurt by a data breach? Hell, even password managers lose data and keep chugging on.
Oh wait. He don’t anymore .
since he switched laptop and don’t care anymore, but weirdly nobody made backup because their is a sense that this once teenager ought to keep things running, somehow.
( inspired by real life even. )
> 4 is basically having my data stored on a crappy Core2 Duo server under a staircase, managed by a teenager
... isn't 1 the same then ? Aside from teenager part
A last one : I was ask to pry open the personal windows of a freshly dead employee because apparently a bunch of critical informations were stored on it ( payroll, bunch of passwords to Linux boxes running stuff )
I refused, then asked to get permission of family.
Then I learned that the plan was to basically reclaim that personal laptop of a dead employee because migrating stuff was too hard.
I told them I was busy.
I think they stole that laptop containing private correspondance and still use it today.
It’s a NGO you heard off. Running on most continents.
My take : IT and security are a distant thought in those places and you need strong top down directions and training to enforce basic hygiene
But I think this basically exists and is called indieweb?