I saw this post and I was curious what was out there.

https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/113444325077647843

Id like to put my lab servers to work archiving US federal data thats likely to get pulled - climate and biomed data seems mostly likely. The most obvious strategy to me seems like setting up mirror torrents on academictorrents. Anyone compiling a list of at-risk data yet?

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    archive.org is hosted in the US and could end up being a valid target. It doesn’t strike me as being a very good place to securely store anything nowadays. I’d consider anything hosted in the US to be out.

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      Depends on the threat model.

      NOAA and others gets underfunded/change of menagement and need to close down open access to stuff.

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      Data becomes illegal to possess and feds start knocking on Web Archive doors.

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      Web archive will do something stupid and will get sued/DDOSed

      In only one very unlikely scenario it won’t be availble due to recent events. But still redundancy would be good regardless of recent stuff.