It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/imawesomehello on 2025-02-04 15:25:11.

Thanks to those archiving data and protecting information! I've begun backing up content that's important to me and other critical sources.

A few thoughts:

1. Having spent my career in tech, I approach this with healthy skepticism. A key challenge will be verifying the integrity of backups if they need to be used, especially when we can't directly verify the trustworthiness of those maintaining them.
2. I'm particularly interested in understanding the preservation status of economic data. For instance, data series like egg prices (e.g. from FRED/St. Louis Fed) https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 - are these being systematically backed up anywhere beyond their source institutions?
3. While Archive.org serves a crucial role, I have concerns about its long-term resilience given its public stance on certain issues. Their mission statement about providing "universal access to all knowledge" is admirable but could potentially make them a target.