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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:08:47 +0100 bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Good god man, I sometimes worry about you*: being all old school and > generally sceptical of new technology is all well and good, but I > suspect if I came around to your house I'd find a horse and carriage > parked outside and a telegraph machine as your main communication > device... Not quite, but I must admit that the wife owns the car. I am just a nemed driver. > Literally every person on the list except you is using one or several > of these new fangled gadgets every day. Well, I have used Dropbox before and I have started to use is again. They all do > exactly what they say on the tin: provide a convenient cloud-based > storage facility of a few gigs for free or a lot more for actual > money. I don't need to pay for Dropbox. Not enough to store. > It's important to know that all of these cloud based services, paid > or free versions, come complete with GCHQ/NSA backdoors cooked in so > the spooks can trawl warrant free through all your stuff. Other > people may lie to you and say this isn't the case but trust me, your > reliable paranoiac here is correct about this. > Yes, I realise that so I encrypt some of the stuff first. > There isn't really a lot of advice to be given here: just download and > try them out, make your own mind up. Except for the amount of free > storage provided and the ease of setting them up on Linux, there isn't > any difference between them. If you really care about data security, > you'd frankly be mad to use any of them: you can of course client-side > PGP encrypt anything before you send it upstream (I do this) or even > follow complex tutorials to mount dropbox via ecryptfs but it's all a > waste of time as the bad guys can root your Linux box, phone, SOHO > router and everything else you own at any point they feel like anyway. > Yes, I also realise that, but at least I do try by encrypting some of it. > If backups are your hidden premise here, the best (and really only) > solution is to find a friend or family member you actually trust, and > both buy a 4Tb+ drive and stick it in a USB enclosure. Backup > everything initially, and swap drives. If you're feeling fancy, buy > some Raspberry Pis (this is what I did with the bunch I bought the > other day) and install them at each end: hook up the USB backup > drives and use SSH/rsync to automate continuous incremental backups > in the dead of night when the internet is quiet. This method will > even survive apocalyptic data destruction at the level of house > fires/police raids. Encryption is optional but recommended, no matter > how much you trust the person at the other end. > And yes, I have heard that one too. Problem is I have no friends and don't like most of my relations much LOL Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq