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by Meremere 1910 days ago
> Assuming the victims are all CS majors is not on.

A large part of VUW's research focus covers law and politics [1], so this statement rings quite true. I would not expect that all researchers even in topics adjacent to IT such as physics and chemistry would understand prior to this event that IT could remote wipe their computer, where the limits of local and network storage lie, or what data storage locations are apparently their personal responsibility to back up.

[1] https://www.vuw.ac.nz/research/strengths/research-focus