cloud is hard

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Canon has a cloud service. Today I found out:

Some of the original photo and video data files have been lost. We have confirmed that the still image thumbnails of the affected files have not been affected.

http://image.canon/

Also new to me is that canon is a top level domain.

Just because big vendors don’t loose any data does not mean that this never gonna be the case. Even if people run on good infra strucure there might be issues on levels above it. In both directions:

  • having not enough copies of your data (as in zero, or 1 which will lead to zero)
  • having too many copies of your data (as in security not being the way should be)