The Importance of Deleting Old Stuff

Bruce Schneier on lessons learned from the Sony Attack:

Everything is now digital, and storage is cheap—why not save it all?

Sony illustrates the reason why not. The hackers published old e-mails from company executives that caused enormous public embarrassment to the company. They published old e-mails by employees that caused less-newsworthy personal embarrassment to those employees, and these messages are resulting in class-action lawsuits against the company. They published old documents. They published everything they got their hands on.

Saving data, especially e-mail and informal chats, is a liability.

The vast amount of data we generate daily can turn against us anytime in the future. Do not let your stuff accumulate on the cloud. Process. Archive. Delete.

January 17, 2015

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