So, cloud services like Skydrive, dropbox and google's storage.
Do you trust them? Do you even understand them?
For example, say you store some confidential information in your account. Cool, you have access to it from anywhere and there's almost no chance of data loss or corruption. How nice.
But clouds are decentralised, your file could be located in any country, you don't know and never will. It could be in chicago, it could be in texas, or it could even be in some european country. These cloud services have servers around the world (edge nodes for maximum performance, low latency). You have no idea where your file is.
The point here is, if you don't know where it is or how many networks/servers it has passed through, how can you trust it? There's probably many copies of it, in fact, spread across several servers to prevent data loss. Someone could've even logged it in "transit", encrypted or not, they would be able to get the original data out of it eventually.
Additionally, someone may one day get into your account somehow, it happens. They then have all your data to do anything they want with.
Better to just buy some cheap USB sticks and put your crap on there?
For those of you who say you trust these services. Imagine you had some incredibly incriminating data that would cause you many, many problems if found, would you still trust such a service to host it?
Do you trust them? Do you even understand them?
For example, say you store some confidential information in your account. Cool, you have access to it from anywhere and there's almost no chance of data loss or corruption. How nice.
But clouds are decentralised, your file could be located in any country, you don't know and never will. It could be in chicago, it could be in texas, or it could even be in some european country. These cloud services have servers around the world (edge nodes for maximum performance, low latency). You have no idea where your file is.
The point here is, if you don't know where it is or how many networks/servers it has passed through, how can you trust it? There's probably many copies of it, in fact, spread across several servers to prevent data loss. Someone could've even logged it in "transit", encrypted or not, they would be able to get the original data out of it eventually.
Additionally, someone may one day get into your account somehow, it happens. They then have all your data to do anything they want with.
Better to just buy some cheap USB sticks and put your crap on there?
For those of you who say you trust these services. Imagine you had some incredibly incriminating data that would cause you many, many problems if found, would you still trust such a service to host it?
