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The real trick is to cryptographically embed important information into cat pictures and disseminate them; if you ever lose all your proper backups, millions of people on the internet will have saved and spread your cat-backups, just need to find the pictures again
...until it turns out compression has killed the message
Gonna need a lot more parity bits than regular old Hamming code