{"podcast":{"title":"The Backup Wrap-Up","slug":"the-backup-wrap-up-758069","podcast_index_feed_id":758069,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/backupwrapup/","website_url":"https://www.backupwrapup.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4670d4e3-81d6-4770-aeca-fe0331f5ce9e/IO00Uwof5u-hiUJElhkbBmKT.jpg","author":"W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup)","episode_count":355,"summary":"Formerly known as \"Restore it All,\" The Backup Wrap-up podcast turns unappreciated backup admins into cyber recovery heroes. After a brief analysis of backup-related news, each episode dives deep into one topic that you can use to better protect your organization from data loss, be it from accidents, disasters, or ransomware. The Backup Wrap-up is hosted by W. Curtis Preston (Mr. Backup) and his co-host Prasanna Malaiyandi. Curtis' passion for backups began over 30 years ago when his employer, a $35B bank, lost its purchasing database – and the backups he was in charge of were worthless. After miraculously not being fired, he resolved to learn everything he could about a topic most people try to get away from. His co-host, Prasanna, saw similar tragedies from the vendor side of the house and also wanted to do whatever he could to stop that from happening to others. A particular focus lately has been the scourge of ransomware that is plaguing IT organizations across the globe. That's why in addition to backup and disaster recovery, we also touch on information security techniques you can use to protect your backup systems from ransomware. If you'd like to go from being unappreciate…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-06T22:18:00.235096+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backup-wrap-up-758069"},"episode":{"title":"Claude Deletes a Company — But It's Not Really Claude's Fault","slug":"claude-deletes-a-company-but-it-s-not-really-claude-s-fault","published_at":"2026-05-18T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backup-wrap-up-758069/claude-deletes-a-company-but-it-s-not-really-claude-s-fault","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backup-wrap-up-758069","url":"https://www.backupwrapup.com/claude-deletes-a-company","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/04d4ee1c-380e-48b1-aa31-07f1fccc3f64.mp3","summary":"Claude deletes a company — and the internet immediately blamed the AI. But this story is really about backup design, credential management, and least privilege. An AI coding agent running Claude via Cursor deleted PocketOS's entire production database and all its backups in nine seconds. One bad design decision at a time, a startup built itself a disaster waiting to happen. Claude just happened to be the thing that set it off. Here's what you need to understand: the AI violated the principles it was given, and that's on Claude. But Claude never should have had access to do what it did. Credentials were sitting in a plain text YAML file. The production database and its backups lived on the same volume. No least privilege. No expiration on elevated permissions. And almost certainly, no backup recovery test — ever. In this episode, Curtis and Prasanna break down what actually went wrong with PocketOS, what Railway did to help recover the data, and what you need to do to make sure this never happens to you. Topics covered include backup isolation, the 3-2-1 rule, secrets management tools like AWS Secrets Manager and HashiCorp Vault, least privilege access, permission expiration, and credential scanning tools like TruffleHog. Chapters: 0:00 — Intro: Meet the villain 1:50 — Welcome and introducing \"the French friend\" 3:48 — What Claude actually did to PocketOS 7:20 — This is a backup story, not an AI story 9:27 — The recovery: Railway, a weekend of chaos, and a lucky Twitter post 12:31 — Your data is your responsibility — not your vendor's 17:48 — Rule #1: Never store backups inside production 20:37 — The real problem: credential management 23:38 — Secrets management tools explained 25:21 — Least privilege and why permissions need expiration dates 34:59 — Finding exposed cre…","meta_description":"Claude deletes a company — and the internet immediately blamed the AI. But this story is really about backup design, credential management, and least priv…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2407,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-backup-wrap-up-758069/episodes/claude-deletes-a-company-but-it-s-not-really-claude-s-fault/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backup-wrap-up-758069/claude-deletes-a-company-but-it-s-not-really-claude-s-fault.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}