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> permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers

History tells us that very few "permanent" situations are truly permanent.

Provided a set of information has value (which in this case it clearly does) then the overwhelming likelihood is that, eventually, through some method or other, the information will become public.

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> History tells us that very few "permanent" situations are truly permanent.

If you destroy the only copy of a physical artifact, the situation is as permanent as it can get.

I mean books get destroyed all the time, really they are a major pain in the ass to keep together, especially as they age. Paper loves to crumble. Insects think they are tasty. Floods and fire love destroying them too.

So physical books are rather non-permanent themselves.

Exactly. Calling anything on an SSD permanent is criminal.

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