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Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments.

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Eir says thousands of customer emails irretrievably deleted in error)

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It’s time to retire ‘edge’ from our IT vocabulary)

Bitcoin Core developer loses all his BTC)

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