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I have recently started using OneDrive. I am not sure how it works.
I believed the data was stored in the Cloud. Yet there seems to be a folder on my disk drive. whet's up with that?
More importantly, how secure is it? do you know?
Finally, are any of you folks using it yourselves? What do you think of it?
I been dazed and confused for so long - Zep
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As I use it, I have it installed on several machines. Each machine has a local folder with all the files stored there. there is also a cloud with all the same files in it. When you add a file on one of these machines, it is replicated to the cloud and then the to all the other machines' folders so you end up with a copy of everything everywhere.
Basically the same as DropBox.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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thank you
Tech is wonderful - when it works!
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Slow Eddie wrote: More importantly, how secure is it? do you know?
Whether it is secure enough depends on your security requirements.
Speaking for myself, definitely would not store anything whose leaking would cause me financial or legal problems. These include state secrets (stolen or otherwise  ), anything for which I had to sign an NDA, my personal (or my employer's) IP, etc.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: These include state secrets
I like how this is your first example.  Nice. Something you want to share with the group? International super spy?
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He could say.. but then he will have to kill us all! 
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It's really related to a Humus recipe. But, you're right - you would be killed.
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Humus? We should be.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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The name is Pfeffer. Daniel Pfeffer.
The examples were listed in decreasing order of severity of consequences. If I had any state secrets, I certainly wouldn't be advertising them here.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: If I had any state secrets, I certainly wouldn't be advertising them here.
OK - understandable.
So tell us - where do you post them?*
* It'll be our little secret.
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I don't store any of those things, so I guess I am OK
Good Systema
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It syncs your folder to the cloud, basically. As far as security, I mean, I don't think it encrypts what it syncs so if the cloud gets compromised I imagine your files do too, but that's with any cloud so I guess maybe that's not very helpful of me. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Excellent - so all someone needs to do is ransomware the entire cloud. What could happen?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, they have a backup right?
Right? 
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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It also contains the "Personal Vault" folder which MS claims is mega-secure.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: MS claims is mega-secure.
... and if the NSA / GCHQ / FSB / ... know otherwise, they aren't talking. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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As you are obviously a Mossad agent I guess you've been reading all my state secrets.
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All none of them?
For the record - the only connection I have with the Mossad is that my taxes help fund it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well gosh they called it a vault, it must be safe! 
Real programmers use butterflies
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Should you be awake at this time of day? 
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Probably not. It's 2am
Real programmers use butterflies
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Oh, you're on the West Coast, one of my favourite parts of the world. Sailed up and down there (LA to Vancouver, BC) a few times in the early 1960s. Yes, I am that old.
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