Comment Re:*Still* no encryption?? (Score 1) 173
Consider the relative difficulty involved in sending an occasional tape to your offsite facility that's clearly labeled "backup decryption keys".
You're using the same facilities that you trust for your other backups. Recovery is relatively straightforward. Only now, if a tape goes missing on its way to the facility, you don't have to worry as much.
(Yeah, I know that some of you send a dozen tapes to different facilities guarded by warring factions of ninja assassins and you encrypt your encryption keys such that 9 different people have to authenticate 9 different sub-keys in order to reconstruct the master key. I'm not talking to you. I'm just saying that some encryption to protect against random idiots is better than none.)
You're using the same facilities that you trust for your other backups. Recovery is relatively straightforward. Only now, if a tape goes missing on its way to the facility, you don't have to worry as much.
(Yeah, I know that some of you send a dozen tapes to different facilities guarded by warring factions of ninja assassins and you encrypt your encryption keys such that 9 different people have to authenticate 9 different sub-keys in order to reconstruct the master key. I'm not talking to you. I'm just saying that some encryption to protect against random idiots is better than none.)
