“It sets us back by years,” Buchold said. “There’s data in the lab that wasn’t anywhere else.” “You don’t have multiple copies of your data?” Vann asked. “Of course we do,” Buchold said. “And you can’t pull it down off your networks?” “You don’t understand,” Buchold said. “We don’t ever put anything genuinely sensitive online. The moment we do that the hacking begins. We’ll put up dummy servers with nothing on them but encrypted pictures of cats, for fuck’s sake, and we won’t tell anyone we’ve put them out there. Within four hours we’ve got hackers from China and Syria cracking them open. We’d
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