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It's also a major flaw of the cloud and SaaS providers. They don't encourage customers to maintain local (or alternate-cloud) backups, because they refuse to ad
by gowld 7y ago
It's also a major flaw of the cloud and SaaS providers. They don't encourage customers to maintain local (or alternate-cloud) backups, because they refuse to admit the appearance of weakness.
If a Cloud/SaaS provider is going to claim to be your hassle-free one-stop shop, shouldn't they provide, as a matter of course, a feature to dump your data daily/weekly/monthly to a designated off-cloud site of your choosing? But they don't, because they want to pretend that they are impenetrable and 100% available.
- rob-olmos 7y agoWould be nice if someone could build a site like https://twofactorauth.org/ https://twofactorauth.org/ for bringing more attention to this alarming and growing issue. The goal to hopefully influence companies into providing such a fundamental ability.
- londons_explore 7y agoA data dump isnt much use if you don't have the software to use said dump. Most SaaS providers don't run open source software...