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There's...a lot of paperwork. Someone out there really likes to smear ink on paper.
Documents are their happy things. They have a hunger for dead wood that computers and their databases cannot satisfy. They feel safe surrounded by piles of paper. They feel secure. They feel calm. No matter how much inaccuracies or redundancy there is. As long as there is a pile of papers, they are content.
The rest of us can do little more than curse them for not having reached 21-st century.
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There's...a lot of paperwork. Someone out there really likes to smear ink on paper.
Documents are their happy things. They have a hunger for dead wood that computers and their databases cannot satisfy. They feel safe surrounded by piles of paper. They feel secure. They feel calm. No matter how much inaccuracies or redundancy there is. As long as there is a pile of papers, they are content.
The rest of us can do little more than curse them for not having reached 21-st century.
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Try to think out of the box. :3
Hardware requirements for data access? Unmatched by any electronic media. Any creature with eyes can read the data on paper, straight away. You don't need displays, operating systems, drivers, applicative software for document processing, software licenses, etc.
Resilience? Papers are resistant to humidity, EMP blasts, thunderstrikes, power outages, and hacking attacks. If stored properly, they're also resistant to theft.
Access control? Often it's easier to keep a secret on paper than in a computer connected to a network. Papers offer full traceability, because of fingerprints, DNA traces, and various chemical compounds that stay in it's cellulose fabric. Every use of a paper is recorded in it's physical structure, folds, tears, etc.
Content Signing? Natural and ultra efficient. Signature are extremely hard to forge. Handwritten documents can be used to accurately identify the writer, and in some cases it's mood and psychological state. Stamps are another easy way to sign a document, and have been used far longer than digital certificates.
Data encryption? Easy, just print a ciphertext on paper using a teleprinter or an encryption machine like Enigma. East Germans and Soviets have been using paper codebooks for decades. One-time pads can be made in paper or in punch-paper tapes.
Data sanitization? Shred it, recycle it, burn it, eat it. No need to wait two days for Gutmann magnetic erase method to complete.
Data retention? Paper, papyrus, or sheep-skins have a data retention time of over 1000 years. Some documents can be dated to year 5000 B.C.
Hardware requirements for data access? Unmatched by any electronic media. Any creature with eyes can read the data on paper, straight away. You don't need displays, operating systems, drivers, applicative software for document processing, software licenses, etc.
Resilience? Papers are resistant to humidity, EMP blasts, thunderstrikes, power outages, and hacking attacks. If stored properly, they're also resistant to theft.
Access control? Often it's easier to keep a secret on paper than in a computer connected to a network. Papers offer full traceability, because of fingerprints, DNA traces, and various chemical compounds that stay in it's cellulose fabric. Every use of a paper is recorded in it's physical structure, folds, tears, etc.
Content Signing? Natural and ultra efficient. Signature are extremely hard to forge. Handwritten documents can be used to accurately identify the writer, and in some cases it's mood and psychological state. Stamps are another easy way to sign a document, and have been used far longer than digital certificates.
Data encryption? Easy, just print a ciphertext on paper using a teleprinter or an encryption machine like Enigma. East Germans and Soviets have been using paper codebooks for decades. One-time pads can be made in paper or in punch-paper tapes.
Data sanitization? Shred it, recycle it, burn it, eat it. No need to wait two days for Gutmann magnetic erase method to complete.
Data retention? Paper, papyrus, or sheep-skins have a data retention time of over 1000 years. Some documents can be dated to year 5000 B.C.
I concede that papaer-based documentation has its merits (even if some of those points are kind of ...ehh), but I still can't shake the feeling of disgust when seeing a pile of forms and blanks. Paper documents just reek of fault- and redundancy-richness since data validation is labour-intensive so nobody really bothers.
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