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Originally Posted by dan.carter
I too would never, never store my data on someone else's offsite system. If I don't care enough about my data to keep it safe, why would someone else. And the data would be private? Right? Like data stored by a government agency is safe.
About 10 years ago there was a popular offsite photo storage company that went belly up and so went many of their clients photos.
This is a bad, bad idea...
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I would never store the
sole copy of my data offsite, which is what your post seems to be inferring. Offsite backup has always been only 1 layer in data protection, never the sole storage location.
As far as privacy concerns goes, here is my thinking:
1. The vast majority of the things I back up, I couldn't care less if someone else saw. Photos of my family, nature, old term papers, etc... are probably of little interest to others, and if some employee there happens upon one and reads it (or even plagiarizes me for a college report), I could care less. Obviously if they use my idea to make $$$, then I'd get involved, but I doubt it would be hard to establish that I was the originator of the content in most cases.
2. The vast majority of employees at any company couldn't give a **** about my information or files. I work tech support for a webhosting company - I don't have the time or desire to look through our client's files, eventhough I have the ability. Unless they're crashing my boxes, I don't care.
3. Any information someone would want is already encrypted. My wallet file is encrypted. sensitive pictures / files / whatever are encrypted using rediculously long encryption keys, etc... If a malicious employee were running around their servers, I doubt they'd spend time hacking my ewallet when there has got to be someone who uploaded "credit_card_numbers.txt" to their store.
Maybe I'm not paranoid enough, or maybe I just feel that most of my data only has value to me (After all, the world wouldn't care if I lost a picture of my cat or an mp3 file here or there). For the extra protection and knowledge that I don't have to meticulously check my backup job statuses, I'll try it.