alt Hacker NewsSeems to be rather sturdy in my experience. Would we even be able to read an electronic record after 100 or 200 years of storage? Old piece of paper is quite accessible.
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alok-g • today at 12:57 AM
Documents getting lost/misplaced/stolen/destroyed is common in some places (owing to corruption or what). "Local in scope" but rampant. Digitization has been a panacea as there is more control over the records, but now more prone to hacking.
wongarsu • yesterday at 2:36 PM
There have been plenty of instances of paper-based land registries being wiped out. It's just usually a very local problem because paper lends itself more to decentralized storage
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> Old piece of paper is quite accessible
If stored properly.
So are digital copies, though. If stored properly.