Alex and Tim,
I am not too concerned about actual security but more about losing
data. But if one also backs up locally, no worries. But another concern
might be inability to retrieve or sync data should one lose Internet
access. But thinking back to a recent loss of my cable connection, I
found out if I disabled wifi on the iPhone, I was able to access the
Internet. I mention this because I could not run certain apps until I
disabled wifi, then was able to use cellular data. I was surprised
because I did not know I had to do this.
Anyway, maybe my thinking is that we may be becoming too dependent
on outside resources. But at the same time, I am starting to see some
nice benefits of using iCloud.
About Cloud Drive, can you explain briefly what it is? Thanks again
you guys.
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On 7/2/2014 10:37 PM, Tim Kilburn wrote:
Hi,
Personally, I haven't seen much downside to cloud storage services. As Alex
mentioned, some folks worry about snooping by governments and such when you
store things in the cloud, but, all the power to them if they want to read my
documents, learn about VoiceOver and other accessibility features along with
any other mundane stuff I store out there. Computers get stolen, memory sticks
get lost, all sorts of things that we think are more secure than the cloud
aren't necessarily so. I love my Google Drive. Like DropBox, I can be
off-line, then as soon as I'm back on-line, everything added to or modified on
my Google Drive is automatically synced up to the Cloud and I feel confident
that I can access it wherever and whenever I need to. Looking forward to when
iCloud Drive comes into the picture.
Later...
Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:54 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
I can't speak for iCloud Drive, as that feature is not out yet. Using Dropbox as an example, though, I think most people see it as a positive. Yes, it stores your data in the cloud. That is not to say that it is only accessible when you are online, though; Dropbox copies everything to your local hard drive (or gives you the option to do so on iOS) so even if you have no internet access you can still get to your files and folders. The down side is definitely security; the government can see your files, depending on the service you use, or someone who manages to hack into your account can do serious damage. That is why I'm excited for iCloud Drive; enable two-factor authentication, and it is suddenly almost impossible for anyone to access your files. These are just my thoughts, and I'm not a security expert or anything. Personally, though, I'm fine with putting my essential files (writing projects, programming projects, resumes, and other essentials) in Dropbox, thus ensuring they
are always backed up no matter what happens to my local machines. Of course,
services like Crashplan or Carbonite can do similar things, but I prefer to
just store the essentials in the cloud; it costs less and it easier to manage
when a restore is necessary.
On Jul 2, 2014, at 11:14 PM, Robert C <[email protected]> wrote:
A message that was just posted prompts this question. It was not quite in
line with that post so started a new one.
With so much attention to using online storage, such as Dropbox, iCloud and
so on, there is no doubt there are advantages to doing this especially if one's
offline storage is limited. But the downside?
What are the inherent risks in particular if one is not using offline
storage, say for backups? Seems risky to rely on outside resources.
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