Government researcher: we've invented a way to make our research stored redundantly across the country, were now safe from nuclear war destroying our intelligence system!

Wait, why is this full of cat pictures?!

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The real trick is to cryptographically embed important information into cat pictures and disseminate them; if you ever lose all your proper backups, millions of people on the internet will have saved and spread your cat-backups, just need to find the pictures again

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...until it turns out compression has killed the message

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Gonna need a lot more parity bits than regular old Hamming code