> And yet most people still don't take backups of their data on a computer. Frequently, cost is the problem for the average Joe. Ergo the lower class would not infrequently suffer permadeath.
People don't back up the data on their computer because it generally isn't all that valuable, not because backups are expensive. A $30 USB hard drive amortized over five years is $0.50/month. If it was a matter of life and death, no one would go without as a matter of cost, and governments could plausibly offer it to everyone for free even if it cost ten times as much to provide a high level of redundancy and availability.
> People go to jail for cybercrime, even if the damage can be undone.
Because it's a crime on the level of vandalism or destruction of property (or ought to be; some of the penalties can be quite excessive). It is not a crime on the level of murder, and murder wouldn't be either if it could be undone.
People don't back up the data on their computer because it generally isn't all that valuable, not because backups are expensive. A $30 USB hard drive amortized over five years is $0.50/month. If it was a matter of life and death, no one would go without as a matter of cost, and governments could plausibly offer it to everyone for free even if it cost ten times as much to provide a high level of redundancy and availability.
> People go to jail for cybercrime, even if the damage can be undone.
Because it's a crime on the level of vandalism or destruction of property (or ought to be; some of the penalties can be quite excessive). It is not a crime on the level of murder, and murder wouldn't be either if it could be undone.