Greg Helledy on 10 Mar 2014 11:25:31 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Sensitive Personal Information In the Cloud? Why bother?

That was my reaction. An encrypted USB stick at a relative's house or even buried in your yard is a straightforward solution. 

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Greg Helledy


On 3/10/2014 1:54 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:

Sorry, but I just don't see the point of using the cloud at all.  Why entrust
your data to somebody somewhere on some server that may or may not be there
tomorrow?

If' you're looking for data security and redundancy, then burn it to a couple
of DVDs or USB disks and give one to your mother and put another in your
safety deposit box.  You lose a little immediacy of access, unless you keep
yet another copy on your local drives.

If the chance of failure of a single disk is 1 in 1 million, then the chance
of two disks failing is 1 is 1 trillion (if I counted my zeros correctly).
Add a third disk in a physically remote location, and the probably of losing
the data drops to ~zero.






On Sunday 2014-03-09 1:32:39 PM Louis Kratz wrote:


I'm looking for a way to store tax documents encrypted in the cloud. I
access this data once a year, but don't want to store it on site in case of
disk failure etc etc.


Lou




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