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This isn't necessarily aimed at you but a bit of a rant because honestly I feel like encrypted backups for personal use are evangelized to the point that it's r
by Entinel 4y ago
This isn't necessarily aimed at you but a bit of a rant because honestly I feel like encrypted backups for personal use are evangelized to the point that it's ridiculous. If my entire hard drive was dumped on the internet, there is nothing that would happen. That isn't to say people should use them but people should consider their threat model.
- silicon2401 4y agoI don't have a problem with you saying they're ridiculous; I'm sure a lot of things are over-evangelized. I have no emotional attachment to anything except my data. However I am very private so I simply feel more comfortable having my data encrypted in the cloud and ideally encrypted on my HDDs. The former for backup privacy, the latter for privacy if I need to RMA an HDD one day.
- jobs_throwaway 4y ago> If my entire hard drive was dumped on the internet, there is nothing that would happen. What do you mean by this? There's nothing personally compromising on your hard drive?
- Entinel 4y agoNo, I'm old school. Anything personal gets downloaded, printed, then deleted.
- bedast 4y agoI prefer to encrypt my backup before sending it somewhere I don't control. Having an offsite backup implies not having control over it. "The Cloud" is just someone else's computer, and they can do with it what they want. It's not just about protecting the data from being leaked/stolen, but also to protect it from being tampered with, such as injecting unlawful material, malicious software, etc.