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The Features Page:

> The Totenpass is built from solid gold and nickel, which inherently resist destruction, never tarnish and will therefore outlive all other ephemeral forms of data storage, from hard drives to Cloud servers.

The FAQ:

> What can I do about a scratched card and can I get a replacement? Unfortunately, there is no remedy for scratched surface. During read back, information could still be recovered if the scratches are slight.

I'm thinking I'm missing something...



I think they just mean it won't naturally degrade over time, like other physical storage media might. Obviously if you really wanted it bad enough, you could physically destroy the data.


If the surface is a gold alloy, you don't really need to want it "bad enough" at all. Gold is a soft metal and unless you treat it with care, scratches will be common.


I think the idea of this thing is that it doesn't degrade over time the way something like paper or a more reactive metal will.

It can be scratched but that's easily prevented: put it in a plastic sleeve.


You can still make 3 or more copies of data, so only if the plates are damaged in exactly same spots, data wont be recoverable.




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