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I almost had a cloud subscription* (via a TigerDirect bundle) - they were sleaze and, as part of the consequence, I no longer do any business with TigerDirect.
Well - not long ago I received an email (as though I was subscribed to the cloud) that gave me a week to get my data off as they were closing down. Imagine some poor suckers who're away and can't get to their data in time!
And, of course, if the internet is down you can't get to your data at all. And, if you're fool enough to have cloud based applications, well - since you can't get to your data you don't need to worry about the doing any work, anyway.
* Why? Since it would be effectively free for the first year, I thought it'd make a good temporary drop-box.
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You hit the nail squarely on the head. Cloud storage is useful for storing backups or for sharing between various locations. That's about it as far as I am concerned. What sort of a dimwit will trust a total stranger with his most valuable assets? Not me matey!
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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It's trust...
What is more "secure"? your 25 Euro Netgear router at home and your software-windows-firewall or the 100'thousands-of-$s riverhead, toplayer, intrusion detection systems of large providers?
It comes down to a question of trust - do you trust your provider? If yes, then go ahead, and TRUST. If you don't - then agree to that and don't put any data in that cloud.
It's not the attack from outside you have to fear - it's the man in the middle - or even worse: the insider - a totally pi**ed employee of your cloud provider, that tries to create trouble.
so choose a cloud provider that encrypts the data in its datacenters - where data is backed up as blackboxes. Then a cloud is as safe as it can be in my oppinion.
Just my 2 cent
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Mike Barthold wrote: What is more "secure"? your 25 Euro Netgear router at home and your software-windows-firewall or the 100'thousands-of-$s riverhead, toplayer, intrusion detection systems of large providers?
Expensive doesn't make it more secure. Expensive firewalls, routers and switches are expensive because they need to be able to handle large amounts of traffic without slowing down and because they need to be managed. A 25 Euro netgear router probably has as many security holes as a 100'000$ one.
Mike Barthold wrote: so choose a cloud provider that encrypts the data in its datacenters - where data is backed up as blackboxes. Then a cloud is as safe as it can be in my oppinion.
No. That's like buying a house and giving the key to an employe so he can open up the door for you everytime you want to get in. What stops this employee from getting into the house and sniffing around? If you want to store sensitive data in the cloud, you have to encrypt the data yourself BEFORE storing it.
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Sorry, but how can you be sure that vendor of your hardware/software does not have a key to your network/pc/nas/... ?
Isn't it easier to break in to your house/office and take the hardware that break into "the cloud"?
It's also the matter of trust, this time to trust the gear you buy.
And isn't it generally advised to encrypt the sensitive data? Stored locally or in cloud?
This is question about where to store, not if to encrypt...
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I use a couple of removable hard drives (that are not shared beyond the PC) to make backups of my sensitive data. They are normally locked in a fireproof safe. I use two in case of hardware failure on one of them.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Fireproof safes a good idea, but one bit of advice I tend to give (following losing many systems but (by luck) no data to Hurricane Sandy):
A backup of important data should be in a separate location. The company I work for has financial implications so, by law, it must have a secure off-site backup. Someone already learned their lesson.
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I actually keep the fireproof safe at my office and the main data on a PC at home so they are several miles apart except when I bring one of the disks home for backing up.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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inside a named box at the train station.
Cloud technology is great: it's a form of perr-to-peer parallel clustering, so internal clouds can be great for companies and governments. For small data and personal use the general purpose clouds are almost useful (you need an Internet connection to access the data, maybe in very urbanized areas it is not a problem but it is what? 20% of the world to be optimistic?), and for web contents they are very good - the risk of server breakdown and missing content is reduced.
But sensitive data? Only if hidden, steganographed and encrypted. Something like the "Super Secret Networks" we are used to see in movies like Hitman or spy movies...
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that is the question. In every place data can be attacked, so thinking the cloud is insecure can be an error too.
But personally: I dont like cloud, because of the external downtime risk.
Press F1 for help or google it.
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If I am working on a project where authentication is being processed, I won't suggest them to store the passwords on a separate local file. Clouds would definitely provide methods to encrypt sensitive data and other data that is not sensitive can be easily stored without effort.
Clouds are, like other tech, emerging with a great velocity. The better would be start finding a good way to secure them rather than thinking of a "Trick or Treat" method to avoid storing the data. If I get a space on Cloud for my application, I would use better methods to make sure the data is stored and is saved in every possible way. 
So, my vote is I would store it if I am using good precautionary measures. After all storing the passwords in plain-string or base64 isn't the efficient way to store passwords on or off Cloud., is it?
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No offence... but you sound a bit idealist in my opinion.
Are you now programming for living? I would guess "no"
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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When you select a Cloud company, how many of its employees do you rate as loyal to you and your company? How many of them work for minimum wage but still have access to your data? How many of them would accept a small sum from your competitors in order to pass over a backup?
How do you know that the company does any backups, much less how frequent and "solid" they are? How do you know that they won;t be bought out by a company that is accountant led instead of technically savvy?
How do you know the company will still exist next year?
We have worked damn hard over the last twenty or more years to get away from the centralised data model, and to a "local" data and processing environment - and now the centralised model is back, but with the added twist of handing it all to unknowns to look after...
Not for me, thank you! 
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I guess it's not only about that, but it's the mainreason to not store sensitive data in any cloud (except your own). On that view i guess clouds are mostly interesting for students to share project stuff and homework.
Otherwise i can't imagine data that can go in the cloud without being sensitive
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HobbyProggy wrote: On that view i guess clouds are mostly interesting for students to share project stuff and homework.
I didn't know that the QA is now a cloud 
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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In that case, get a separate laptop and adjust it to act as a web server. I am sure you trust yourself to not phish it and rely on yourself and that laptop. 
Do not forget to send me the URL to your site! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: How do you know the company will still exist next year?
You have the same problem when investing in an OS.. So, if it is the same company you're betting on..
Not my opinion, but would sound reasonable as argumentation.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: would sound reasonable as argumentation.
It's not really the same: if Microsoft went bust tomorrow, there would still be people using windows in ten years time. If the company holding your cloud data goes bust, and their servers are repossessed...
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Good point 
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I agree,
and that credit card token storage is pretty much a fancy name for cloud.
I got into an online argument here on CP about that issue, and everybody was brainwashed into thinking that the secure token method was the way to go, and I was an idiot not to use it.
Perhaps it just programmers passing the buck for the care and responsibility of sensitive data.
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OriginalGriff wrote: How do you know that the company does any backups, much less how frequent and "solid" they are?
Once had an admin friend of mine tell me, "Nobody cares about backups. Restores, however..."
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Any cloud will eventually get hacked...
And that sensitive data will be out on the street.
Except when you're government.
In that case your sensitive data will come out on the street anyway
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See, that's where the NSA's going about it wrong.
Instead of being this secretive organization, they should market themselves as "Your free backup solution."
"We've got all your data, any time you need it."
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Getting hack is secondary to me. Would you trust a stranger with a master key to you house, regardless how well intension (s)he may be? Any encrypted data can be broken, it just a matter of time. Once that sensitive data goes into the cloud, it stays in the cloud indefinitely.
I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Google drive or Drop-box. I don't event trust putting sensitive data on a thumb drive let alone the cloud.
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Some data very impotent and confidential for you but its dose not have any value without logic then its not at all important data for all.
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