Hacker News Reader

Would this have been any different if these documents were stored non-electronically though? I understand that the whole point of electronic data is that it can be backed up, but if the alternative were simply an analog system then it would have fared no better.

It would have been better if storage was distributed.

Paper records are usually distributed both by agency and by locality.

For paper documents, you'd make at least a few copies for storage at the source, and then every receiver will get his/her own notarized copies.

Electronically, everyone just receives a link to read the document.

One source,

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/world/asia/nepal-unrest-a... ("Many of the nation’s public records were destroyed in the arson strikes, complicating efforts to provide basic health care")

Not sure where you got that info. only physical documents were burned (intentionally by the incumbents you could argue) however the digital backups were untouched

Anti authoritarian patriots?

Happened in Bladerunner too

And Fight Club