[CS-FSLUG] Apple and Amazon security lapses exposed after writer has 'entire digital life' destroyed by hackers in minutes
Timothy Butler
tbutler at ofb.biz
Fri Aug 10 16:50:07 CDT 2012
On 2012-08-07 23:36, Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Backup AND stay OUT of "the cloud."
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.
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.
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).
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...
Blessings,
Tim
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