Yeah, about that ‘cheep’ cloud storage...
Yeah, maybe tossing all of the physical media and using the cloud to store your memories wasn’t the best move?
Especially if you’ve got 70 years of archival footage that could disappear at the drop of a hat, as this St. Louis PBS station has learned.
They stored 50 terabytes of data with a cloud storage company, that company went kaput, and now they’re having to fight tooth and nail to get that data back.
Full article, HERE at Not the Bee. h/t Stretch
We’ve had a lot of conversations about ‘cloud’ storage here. In reality it is nothing more than somebody else’s computer that you’re storing stuff on.
And how good is that ‘security’, or is there any? I know these places ‘claim’ there is airtight security (yeah, right), but how much stuff has been hacked in the last 10 years?
How many ‘actors’ have had those ‘private’ nudes hacked? How many companies have had business plans hacked? How many companies have their entire proprietary dataset hacked? How many hospitals (remember that whole HIPAA thing)?
How do you know who really has access to your private data? Some bored tech somewhere scanning your data for any .jpgs, or???
In the early 2000s, I watched a group of white hat hackers hack a windoze network in less than five minutes from start to root access on a system they had NO access to. Sigh... And that was 20+ years ago.
And lets not forget the Google debacle, where they said ‘anything’ you put on a Google drive belonged to them, copywrite or not...
Personally, I never have, and never will use or trust the cloud. I prefer physical media that I control. I use terabyte hard drives for both backup, and ‘spare’ storage, in addition to dumping my critical stuff to thumb drives, one of which is kept off site.
What y’all do is up to y’all, but you should be aware of the possible issues. Just sayin...
Password managers exist solely to make it easier for other people to hack your passwords.
You don't share your passwords for anything important with anybody or *anything*. You don't. The really important ones you write down in a book (which is more secure than anything on line) - actually these days the best backup is to write them all down in a book for backup. A notebook at home is a lot more secure than a file on a machine. But if you're going to have a lot of them, you need to develop your own password rules to manage all of it by.
And never use 3-factor / 2-factor, whatever they're calling it. That exists solely to make it easier to hack your password.
Cloud storage is never secure because the company it's at looks at it. Their employees look at it. If the company thinks you're breaking the law, they share it with the police. If the employees think it's cool, or they can make money with it, they'll use it. You don't control it. If you need data storage, buy or make your own and keep it at home. Behind a firewall, on a private network. Phones are not secure devices because they are easily hacked (they all have backdoors to the OS installed), stolen, cloned, all of that. So if you need to access it remotely, use a laptop or a tablet that can be made secure, and build your access with care and don't put anything truly critical or private on that server.
Completely agree. Modern Computers try to force cloud storage, every time I have an update, I have to tell this stupid machine, "No you dumb bastard, I do not want to put that on my "one drive" I want to put that on my computer, which I own, in my fucking house!" The cloud not only allows someone else to access my data, often as easily as I can access it myself, and not only puts me at the mercy of some other mother, who now owns the computer my data is on, BUT if I don't have internet access, I can't get at the data. That alone has caused me pain.