On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 12:09:14 -0400 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:52 AM, Valerio Bellizzomi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 14:00 -0400, Tom Easterday wrote: > >> Always good to have a local backup as well, but offsite backup is > >> essential if you really care about the data. With CrashPlan there is an > >> option, I believe, where they hold the key as well and can therefore > >> decrypt data if you happen to lose the key. > > > > I am not sure how to take this. It appears to me that if they hold the > > key, they hold your power, and I am not sure how this is good for your > > data security allowing them to look at your data. > > Agreed, and that is why I choose to hold the key myself. But, if you are > willing to trust the company with your key (and hence data) and are afraid > you will lose your key then that is an option for you. You can think of the > company hosting your data like a bank. You are willing to give your money to > a bank. They could choose to steal your money at any moment (and it has > happened), but that isn’t the normal course of business.
Bank lend your money to other and the part not protected by government is legally gone then bank get bankrupt. For me it would be of greater concern to lose key than for others to get a copy. Illegal copies may be a concern but legal competition is worse. Nicklas Karlsson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
