It also underlines exactly why the NSA wants a backdoor into this type of digital treasure trove.
Along with the ability to save and backup all of one's digital treasure trove, being able to secure all those 1s and 0s has also become more desirable.
One hundred years from now, when archivists look back on our lifetime, they will be faced with a digital treasure trove filled with among other things -- cat memes.
With one false move, people lost access to a significant part of their digital identity and trove of personal data.
The new fall issue of this digital magazine is a trove of seasonal delights.
His responsibilities will include selling off the company's trove of digital imaging patents and potentially reorganizing Kodak's "legacy liabilities," including its pension obligations.
But on Tuesday, its current owners told users of plans to change its business strategy — and to wipe out the site's trove of digital memories, including ancient dorm-room photos, late-night blog entries and heartfelt friend endorsements, known as "testimonials".
US intelligence was meanwhile switching its focus to finding the Egyptian-born Ayman al-Zawahiri, the former No 2 and likely successor to Bin Laden as FBI and CIA teams hunted for clues as to his whereabouts in the trove of digital data seized when the al-Qa'ida leader was killed.
Facing a trial date of Feb. 27, lawyers for Mr. Pellicano and his five co-defendants attacked the search warrants used to raid the detective's offices in November 2002 and to unearth a trove of digital audio recordings in the ensuing months.
► A new book, Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action, describes how "our use of... online tools leaves behind a treasure trove of digital traces that can be fruitfully employed for social scientific inquiry," wrote Arnout van de Rijt, a sociologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in the Books et al. section of this week's issue of Science.
