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This is the same with Github, Dropbox, Google, Apple, Bitbucket, Any email provider... Shall I go on? You always have a risk when you're storing your data at a
by tjbiddle 10y ago
This is the same with Github, Dropbox, Google, Apple, Bitbucket, Any email provider... Shall I go on?
You always have a risk when you're storing your data at a 3rd party. Yes, some are new and have less reputation, others are old and have a terrible reputation, others are old and have a great reputation - but none of that stands for anything because your data is in the hands of someone else in every case.
If you don't want that, don't use it.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoYou don't have the risk if you store it cryptographically. My first use of Dropbox was moving stuff in Truecrypt volumes. I found even laypeople could be taught to do that as it was somewhat tedious rather than difficult. For implementers, CompSci keeps cranking out all kinds of ways for one to use 3rd party storage in untrusted fashion. Just gotta clone one of them with OSS code.
- tjbiddle 10y agoOh, I completely agree! I have probably 5 separate TrueCrypt volumes in my Google Drive. That said, that's only maybe 15GB of my storage, and around 80GB is unencrypted. It's all about what level of convenience you're willing to expose yourself for. I keep anything I want private in TrueCrypt, anything I don't mind "public" (Or at least exposed to Google / NSA) unencrypted as then I can access it so much easier from my phone, etc.