[chlorion]

For me, it's about uploading files to the "cloud" such as Google Drive or Github and wanting to make sure that the data I uploaded is the same data that I am getting back. If the signatures fail I could unpack the file and manually review them to see what's up.

In your case, I think the problem is having backups that are attackable from production, and likely only having one set of backups.

>You cannot just not use the backup

What would you do if instead of tampering with the backups or production they just deleted everything outright?