> On Jul 14, 2017, at 5:59 PM, dwight via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > This is often called "The Information Era". > > I've always called it "The Information Lost Era". > > You may quote me. > > Why the NASA person said to immediately destroy the tapes, one can only guess. > > Those tapes belonged to the people of the USA. They were not some single > persons option to destroy. We as tax payer own that information.
This isn't always true. The article says the systems came from an IBM contractor facility and the data could have been internal work product. The same is true for retention policies of records. Not everything the government produces are official records that needs to be retained. And even if they are, most artifacts have specific time limits on how long they need to be retained. For someone that complains the government is destroying "their" data there's probably more people complaining that the government would be wasting "their" money to do the work of trying to read the data. -A
