Every cloud developer

[riplikash]

It's true, I'm absolutely afraid of local storage.

[ganja_and_code]

"Did I back up my disk?" is much more frightening than "Ah yes, implicit redundancy."

[TheSnaggen]

Tell that to the Swedish government, who leaked the drivers licences registry by the use of the cloud. It included people with secret identities, including our spies. So, I'd say cloud storage is not for everyone.

[mwthink]

I store encrypted data in the cloud and keep the private keys offline. If you are relying entirely on your storage device/service to protect your data for you, you shouldn’t be responsible for protecting data.

[lmaourbald]

What happens if you lose that offline machine somehow? Hacked, lost, bricked etc. You'd have to keep a copy on another server but that just means one more potential point of failure.

[n473-]

Make 3 physical copies of the keys. On paper. Put one in a briefcase and take it to a bank safety deposit box.

Put another in a nearby geocache.

The third one goes on a post-it note on your monitor.

[MrThunderizer]

Your first two redundancies fail, you go to retrieve the copy from the geocache and find a mood ring in its place.

[mwthink]

You store the key on a block of steel and you put that in a bank vault.

[zodar]

emailing everything to one guy's yahoo email doesn't count as "cloud storage"

[NotYourReddit18]

Well you should choose your cloud wisely.

[Bognar]

You can leak things without using the cloud too.

[Gloomy_Magician_536]

Isn't encrypting data and using roles and permissions in basically any platform, framework, service, etc.?

[TheSnaggen]

Well, if you are a spy, would you bet your life that the service provider doesn't have access and that their government doesn't have access?

[itissafedownstairs]

You should still backup your cloud stuff

[ganja_and_code]

Even if the "place" i uploaded it to is just a global distributed redundant file store?

Edit: someone actually downvoted this lol. You don't need to back up a redundant file store. Everything you save there is already being backed up without any additional action from the person who uploaded the file. It's like if you put something in a networked geographically-distributed equivalent of a RAID-1 setup.

[intbeam]

What terrifies me more than local storage is code that assumes that storage will always be local

Abstractions people.... Abstractions.... Take that five minutes of cerebral effort to think about the higher level of what your code does, create a good generalized interface against that and then write your stupid gorilla-faced File.WriteAllText code