Comment Re:How are the Guardian's offsite backups (Score 1) 301
That was a piece of theatre; the Guardian's staff destroyed the hard drives/laptops, ensuring that they didn't fall into the hands of the government. Everybody knew that, other than costing the Guardian a few thousand pounds (i.e., a blip in the expenses), it achieved nothing. If Rusbridger keeps waving a red rag in the face of the bull of the Deep State, the next raid will not be quite so innocuous; more like APCs cordoning off the road, troops pouring in with submachine guns under cover of snipers on adjacent rooftops, nobody allowed to leave without a body search for data-bearing contraband, and anything capable of bearing data either taken back to GCHQ for analysis or placed in a pile on the lower floors of the building, ringed with thermite charges. And the following day, the Times and Telegraph leading with “well, what did they expect?”