I concur with Kent: I'll never use those services to store critical content on a cloud-based storage service. They're convenient, to a point. But convenience cannot trump security, especially if that's a major concern for you (it is for me). Heck, I store sensitive content on my IronKey only AFTER I've encrypted it with GPG. Perhaps that's a little much to some, but I like to hedge my bets.
One could argue that I could store encrypted content safely in the cloud, but why give some 3rd party an opportunity to bang against my encrypted files, trying to unlock them? No security is 100% certain (i.e. all cryptographic mechanisms fail/get cracked at some point). Your needs will dictate what trade-offs you can make (i.e. security vs. convenience). Ryan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Brodie" <[email protected]> To: "Evan Pettrey" <[email protected]>, "LOPSA Discuss List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:38:58 AM Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Dropbox vs. Microsoft SkyDrive vs. Google Drive The Google policy on their DRIVE service is enough to turn me off, at least for now. I already have dropbox, and it satisfies my needs wonderfully. Will I still end up using the google service? Sure, it may come in handy. But I’m not putting my critical/important/private files there. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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