This one time, traveling through Asia, a simple merchant transaction triggered a fraud alarm on my card. The default for my bank at the time was to cancel my card automatically. This was before the days where cards could become unblocked. I had to travel to another city to pick up a new card in 10 working ways. This was a Mastercard credit card. I thought I was smart traveling with both a mastercard and a Visa card. Well, the Visa card was automatically cancelled too. Due to the same event. No cards for me to use to get to that city and I had to resort to a dodgy western union transfer to move forward. Also, try booking a flight with cash, it’s not fun.

My point is that the basket that eggs are put in is not always clear in hindsight. I wasn’t even aware that Mastercard and visa shared fraud alerts and that they were automatically linked.

The author’s article is not about backups, it’s about accountability.

Visa and Mastercard are also an excellent example of two companies we trust way too much despite having proven many times they don't deserve that trust.

My post is not about backup strategy, it’s about what happens when the infrastructure itself becomes hostile, and support throw you from one team to another. AWS didn't just delete files.

They gaslit me for 20 days while violating their own stated policies.