> William Cravens, the attorney representing Iron Mountain, told the judge his client doesn’t know the format of Nine PBS’ materials that were stored by OSS. He expressed concern about whether Nine PBS’ archival material is lumped together with data from other OSS clients. Iron Mountain wants to avoid potentially corrupting the other data, Cravens added.

> Elliff ordered the immediate return of any physical devices that hold Nine PBS’ data once access to OSS’ storage system is granted…

> Once Nine PBS retrieves its data, the station must work with a third party to ensure that no data from other OSS customers is among those materials.

I don’t love this call. Handing over any disk has several problems. It could easily contain very sensitive data from another client. It’s inherently one-sided (another client can’t make the same request if the disk is already gone). And it’s being handed over to a PBS station that doesn’t seem to have the technical chops to manage data backups/security.

I want them to get their data back, but this needs a technical intermediary that handles all client data equally.