When you say you own your own server, you mean under your control in your house
or some physical location that only you can access? Otherwise, if you mean you
are paying a company to reserve a dedicated server for you, you might as well
just pay less for an online backup service; it's really no different.
Online backups have always been a bit of a touchy subject, especially after the
whole NSA scandal, and how nobody trusts companies anymore, after all the
documented info was release about how all these encryptions are questionable at
the least and backdoor access to most major companies' network infrastructures
and servers. Take for example how vendors are rushing to stop using sh1
encryptions and certificates by 2016 because of all the recent compromises. All
that to say, if you hope to keep any chance of privacy, store your data
somewhere where only you have physical control over it. Unfortunately, one
drive, google drive, iCloud or any other service, including dropbox and its
similar variants don't really cut the bill. Even if you rent a dedicated server
at a hosting site (which is really a virtual machine on a multiload server),
you don't have physical access, and you don't even know how well that company
gards your data and what exploits they are not even aware of that they are
suffering from. And if you say, I encrypt my data, so I'm ok, unless you use
super heavy encryption and the latest standards, you could just be wasting
time. Ask Sony how well their encrypted stuff held up against hackers? lol
I could go on and on about cyber security and other topics that could help
explain further, but that would be way off topic. But if I could advice anyone
about it, for serious stuff, stay away from online backup. Take it from someone
who works with computers and IT security and is up to speed on most of this
stuff. Don't believe the promises, everyone thought RSA512 was impregnable,
until NSA proved otherwise ;)
Regards, DJX
-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Raywonder
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 12:49 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Got my laptop back up and running
On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Phil Muir <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Don't back up online. Wouldn't trust leaving data online.
