At 12:09 AM -0500 12/22/2008, Tom Coradeschi wrote: >At 02:17 AM -0500 12/08/2008, Dan wrote: >>At 7:51 PM -0500 12/7/2008, Tom Coradeschi wrote: > >>For 50 bucks a year you can get an account at mozy.com and back up as >>>much as you want. If your needs are under 2GB, you can get a free >>>account and use that! >> >>As attractive and easy-to-use as these sites are becoming... I'm >>sorry... These services just turn me OFF. >> >>Yea, so they store the data in an encrypted form. But then to >>provide you with web-based access they have to have the decrypt key >>ON THEIR SERVERS WITH YOUR DATA! hummmmm. And it just goes >>down-hill from there. > >Ummm, not sure what you're getting at here, Dan. Mozy does not (at >least not that I am aware of) provide you with "web-based" access.
According to their FAQ they do. >You have to use their software, and, per the FAQs on their site, if >you lose your decrypt key, you are out of luck in terms of getting >your data back. And yet their FAQ also describes getting access to your data even after your computer has been destroyed. They even have you call Support to have them manually give you access... It may be that there is some magic secure way of doing all this, that they're just not talking about. But ... still, they're an unknown 3rd party... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
