Following the Snowden revelations, I'm working on bringing myself down from the cloud a bit. Right now the only public cloud data I have is for website hosting, and for my email account with iCloud. I'm thinking of bringing my mail server in-house again soon.
I used to use Dropbox; I don't anymore. I appreciate the convenience, but the data is unencrypted. I now use a combination of Arq to back up to Amazon Glacier, and BitTorrent Sync for syncing between devices. Sharing is much harder. Yes, it's less convenient, but it's more secure and I do care about security. The trick is to encrypt your stuff before you deposit it on the cloud whenever and wherever possible, thus making use of it as a backing store, but one which can get lost or corrupt without incident. Make sure you have local backups too, of course--you wouldn't want the disappearance of your cloud provider to represent complete data loss. Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
