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Do You Trust the Cloud?

Do You Trust the Cloud?

  • Yes

    Votes: 9 39.1%

  • No

    Votes: 11 47.8%

  • Undecided

    Votes: 3 13.0%
  • Total voters
    23
Yes. I've used cloud storage extensively for both business and personal use for several years with no problems. Don't know what I'd do without it now...it's just too friggin' handy!
 
For example ... I trust Google Drive and Dropbox to let me know when things are going to be changing with enough time to make other arrangements. Apple and Microsoft tend to make decisions arbitrarily and notify customers at the last minute so there's little or no time to react. I would expect Yahoo! to let me know six weeks after they've made the change by an email telling me how I can get my files back. :rolleyes:
 
Google Drive and Dropbox are the only ones I trust. But I use them a lot. I also use CloudHQ, which is not storage, but a storage sync service.
 
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Not to mention private clouds, which is just a server with a public facing IP (and hopefully a secure firewall). A lot of the consumer "private cloud" appliances require some communication with third party, and then it becomes a trust issue with them.
 
When I say trust, I don't mean trust as in honesty. I don't doubt that cloud services intend to keep the data secure. I mean trust as in confidence that they have the expertise and resources to do so.

Trust a private cloud plugged into a Windows PC or network? No. Not even.

But...it's impossible to control where some information ends up. My Gmail address could be on a 2TB USB drive hooked into a 2003 Dell running an XP install that hasn't seen an update since 2004. With no firewall. Nothing I can do about it.
 
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Crashdamage said:
Trust a private cloud plugged into a Windows PC or network? No. Not even.
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Whoa there, who said anything about a Windows PC? ... Linux, baby! ;) I've got a CentOS 6.7 server behind a Cisco firewall sitting in my basement. :D

But...it's impossible to control where some information ends up. My Gmail address could be on a 2TB USB drive hooked into a 2003 Dell running an XP install that hasn't seen an update since 2004. With no firewall. Nothing I can do about it.
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I've been meaning to ask how you're making out with that Nigerian prince deal. ;)
 
I trust the major clouds to do a competent job with cloud management. I don't trust any of them to prevent a truly dedicated attack, but I need to use them and *do* trust that most of what I keep in the cloud is not very valuable to anyone. ;-) I use Onedrive (because I'm pretty MS Office centric and it just simplifies working in office across 3 different platforms) and DropBox. I also have a friend who is a corporate IT admin who maintains a private Linux server and I use that as a private cloud. As expressed above, trust is not a really big issue-- it's pretty hard not to use tham at all and, frankly, they are so dang convenient I wouldn't want to stop.
 
Does cloud management use my information that I may store on them? I am asking. Other than being convenient for the customer for storage, isn't that a major sidebar as to why cloud services are out there? So far, I keep all my stuff on externals. I tried Dropbox but it seemed to invasive.
 
Very interesting... Almost 50/50 if you count the undecided as yes votes. I just wish they (whoever they are) had come up with a better name for this storage option than the "Cloud". Clouds by there very nature are ephemeral objects. I want storage that's practically guaranteed to last. That's why I like external storage cards and drives.
 
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