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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/10/2012 05:50 PM, Timothy Butler
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:9442601628c99efc7c317d2f7b7d8fbf@ofb.biz"
type="cite">On 2012-08-07 23:36, Fred A. Miller wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> Backup AND stay OUT of "the cloud."
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Well, I'm not sure I'd go that far. I'm pretty dependent on
several clouds floating around for me and it makes my life vastly
easier because of it. My documents all go on Dropbox, which
ensures that I can get to what I need whether I'm on my laptop,
I'm at my office at church or my office at the university where I
teach (or my iPhone). Mac OS X makes it super simple to create
encrypted disk images if one needs to ensure that
Dropbox can't view it.
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I use iCloud to keep my contacts, calendar and bookmarks in sync
between my computers, my iPhone and my iPad. This is really
essential, since I'm far too absentminded to remember to keep my
contacts and calendar in sync the "old fashion way." (I might move
to a self-hosted ownCloud for this.) iCloud also streams all the
photos I take on my iPhone straight to Aperture and all the photos
I import into Aperture to my iPhone and iPad.
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And then, of course, my e-mail is all cloud based using IMAP or
Exchange servers (my self-hosted e-mail addresses are IMAP, the
college and the seminary both use Exchange).
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My sympathies. <span class="moz-smiley-s14"><span> O:-) </span></span><br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:9442601628c99efc7c317d2f7b7d8fbf@ofb.biz"
type="cite">
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In any case, I think the Cloud is here to stay. But, one can still
protect one's data just by backing it up offline too... The
nightmare described by the journalist could not happen to me
unless someone broke in and stole my physical backups.</blockquote>
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Well, it's more than just backups that are important, IMHO. I have
doubts about what's "out there" being as secure as I want it to be,
encrypted or not. <br>
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Fred<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Apparently, we are supposed to be more angry about what
Mitt Romney does with his money than what Barack Obama
does with ours.</pre>
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