/dev/random: Cloudbursting, or Risk Mismanagement

Let us now consider backups: boon or bane? “Boon obviously,” I hear you respond with more than a soupçon of righteous indignation. Fair enough. Having an additional copy of your critical data is objectively better than the alternative; I agree. Provided, of course, that said copy is truly a copy. If, on the contrary, it is no more than a hollow shell filled with empty zeroes, that “backup” may prove less salubrious. Allow me to elucidate.