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As much as I love the idea of a turnkey home server, I can't help thinking that will be Apple's next move. Some of us just won't use iCloud due to legal issues
by mikecane 15y ago
As much as I love the idea of a turnkey home server, I can't help thinking that will be Apple's next move. Some of us just won't use iCloud due to legal issues. If the gov't suddenly has an exigent need for, say, photos taken on a certain day, time, and place, their snooping won't be limited to plucking those from iCloud. They'll grab all the photos stored and sort through them afterwards. And that without legally having to serve search warrants to each individual user. I don't want my privacy and rights violated like that. So I'd like "iCloud for the Home," with a Mac mini that is where I put it and where the gov't needs to serve me personally with a warrant to access the data.
Also, despite this company's assurance about encryption, hell, the way Anonymous has cracked open things out there, I'm not about to trust anyone with even fractions of my data, especially since I think many Anonymous members will scoop this up and get busy hacking it.
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- k-mcgrady 15y agoAs far as I can tell all data is encrypted before it is sent out on the network and the decryption key is only stored locally. Nothing is perfectly secure but SpaceMonkey seems to do a good job.
- spindritf 15y agoIf the key was only stored locally, you wouldn't be able to restore the data in case of hardware failure. I would guess that Space Monkey itself has access to the key and the data.
- subpixel 15y agoImportant question, and not explained in the marketing materials: Is Space Monkey a turn-key backup solution? E.g. if my SM drive explodes, can I get my data back with a new SM drive?
- alenlpeacock 15y agoYes. Data durability is ensured by the network copy, not the local cache.
- dfc 15y ago> "Each file is encrypted with a user’s private key using industry standard encryption primitives including AES-128 and RSA-4096 encryption. > Your data is still accessible even if you are outside of your home and your home ISP experiences an outage." In light of the RSA reference it seems like they encrypt every thing with a user pubkey and a company pubkey. Without the company pubkey there would be no way to access your data when you were not at home.