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RE: Cloud Storage of all forms is for the Sheeple

I have yet to lose any data on hard drives on a computer system that I personally manged. That's because I keep three backups and one of them is a RAID based system. It would take the failure of four separate disk drives for a drive failure to result in data loss. My backup system runs automatically, except that every month I resync with the fourth backup which is kept off-site. My backup system is set up in such a way that it would take multiple independent cases of "cockpit error" before I would accidentally delete my files.

Why am I so paranoid? I started out in computing in 1960 when you were lucky if a computer system worked for an hour or two without a fatal glitch. Multiple backups were essential unless one wanted to give one's boss the equivalent of "the dog at my homework".

If one is lazy one can always trust someone else to do one's own job. One could have trusted Bernie Madoff with one's money... I don't see any of the cloud services as objectively more trusted then Madoff, and that's before considering that one gives up one's Fourth Amendment rights of privacy when one stores one's data in the cloud.


Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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