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> The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are? No, the second question, which is a multiplier of the
by RHSeeger 7y ago
> The only question is, is your cloud provider less likely to make mistakes with your data than you are?
No, the second question, which is a multiplier of the first, is how catastrophic the mistakes can be. Google _can_ accidentally do much worse things with your data, but it probably much less likely to make mistakes with it in the first place.
- compiler-guy 7y agoYep. If I screw up, then the worst case is pretty much that the data is gone. If the cloud provider screws up, then the worst case is that my video goes viral and lives on the internet forever. It isn't hard to imagine some troll finding he got some embarrassing video via takeout and putting it up on reddit for everyone to see.
- blowski 7y agoOther worst cases - you leave the firewall wide open, and some script kiddies steal the photos, replace them with kiddie porn and refer you to the police.
- compiler-guy 7y agoThis is a risk regardless of where I store my data. If I have a machine with any local storage of any kind at all, then someone could break in and store stuff there. So this is not a differentiator between storing your own data in the cloud and locally.