Is digital data safe?

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We live in a digital age - and most of your data is probably stored in the cloud. But how safe is digital storage - and could a vault in Svalbard be a better bet to protect your data? For more on the @arcticworldarchive, just head to our profile or search for Razor Science Show.   #Arctic #ArcticCircle #Svalbard #ArcticWorldArchive #Norway #Data #DataPreservation #Memory #ArcticMemory #Razor #RazorScienceShow #Razor_Science_Show #SvalbardGlobalSeedVault #China #Vatican #GitHub #EuropeanSpaceAgency #ESA #UNICEF #Poland #AWA #TajMahal #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Climate #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #FilmReels #Hollywood #Bollywood

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00:00Every year, we create millions of terabytes of data, but storing all that content online

00:09isn't foolproof.

00:12One possible solution has been built deep inside an Arctic mountain, a vault that stores

00:18digitized data on film reels.

00:20We live in a digital world.

00:23Almost everything is accessible in the cloud.

00:25If you can access this in the cloud, hackers can access it.

00:29So they can steal it, they can manipulate it, they can change it, and it's an endless

00:34story of shifting data around, and in the end, you don't know what you have.

00:39And on top of that, we have now artificial intelligence, and you don't know what was

00:42written originally and what was created by AI.

00:46Here we have a physical storage medium, completely immutable, so that you can guarantee that

00:52this was actually how it was written a thousand years back.

00:55To learn more, just head to YouTube and search for Razor Science Show.

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