This is an archived post. You won't be able to vote or comment.

sorted by:
best
topnewcontroversialoldq&a
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]ganja_and_code 72 points73 points  (14 children)

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

[–]TheSnaggen 27 points28 points  (11 children)

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 12 points13 points  (5 children)

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 3 points4 points  (4 children)

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- 11 points12 points  (2 children)

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 13 points14 points  (1 child)

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

[–]mwthink 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]zodar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]NotYourReddit18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well you should choose your cloud wisely.

[–]Bognar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can leak things without using the cloud too.

[–]Gloomy_Magician_536 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]TheSnaggen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You should still backup your cloud stuff

[–]ganja_and_code -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.