3rd December 2011, 4:44 PM
You can't put the genie back in the bottle. You and I both know that, if this is true, they're constantly storing this data themselves, so all they lose is future data.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)