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Fire destroys Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
(koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2025
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Here we have a glass of water, it’s half full.
Did someone forget to fill it up, or did someone drink it.
Is it institutional incompetence or criminal conspiracy?
I don't think changing the analogy makes your argument stronger
I don’t have any argument, just my natural suspicion only.
But you likewise are thin on facts, your natural inclination is to see this as more a system issue.
Either we will never know , or one of us will be correct later