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I'm a bit shocked that all answers so far use cloud storage and not a single one proposes offline. I store everything in the cloud, because it is unbeatably co

I'm a bit shocked that all answers so far use cloud storage and not a single one proposes offline. I store everything in the cloud, because it is unbeatably convenient except for the very things mentioned: health, financial and legal. I'm not 100% strict either, because if a document has been sent or received electronically or can be assumed to be stored in the cloud anyways I really can't do much. I still assume that every online storage will be breached one day and keep some documents deliberately offline. To give you some chills, check out "Who's been pwned" [1] and this is only the tip of the iceberg that has surfaced and that fulfills HIBP's inclusion criteria. [1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites

hosteur 3y ago
> I'm a bit shocked that all answers so far use cloud storage and not a single one proposes offline. Huh? I think I made the second or third comment in this thread outlining my solution which is offline-first: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37520972
coderatlarge 3y ago
besides the security aspect (which I agree is major and often unavoidable), local storage has numerous other advantages, among which: (1) search can be dramatically and noticeably faster, (2) access cannot be removed/degraded when traveling to countries in which various online services are not permitted.