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RE: ALERT!!!!! Massive privacy glitch compromises photos/videos of google photos and google drive users!
Had not been paying attention to the news lately so thanks. And indeed, clouds are computers that belong to someone other than those of whom the content belongs.
Hello @machnbirdsparo!
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Nope... this hasn't made headlines in mainstream news so far, besides the ars technica article on the "outer rim" to mainstream stuff.
Cheers!
Lucky
I hope to be prepared when it does. You seem like you will.
Thank you for your comment!
Regarding this I am prepared. I even use google drive in a special niche (off "main-site" secondary location with IT equipment) but I only sync pre encrypted files (local data backups).
For the average user I cannot recommend any of these "free" synching offerings because of what I wrote in the article. But if you have a little more of an IT background and you keep in mind certain aspects, like only synching encrypted data to such services for instance, imho you can use these.
But for an simplistic view on this, most will be better off not using any of these privacy raping, having a low priority on being good data custodians with some integrity for their users, offerings.
I know, it's simply tempting to use some of these easy to use and operational almost flawless offerings of some of our internet giants like google, amazon, apple and so on.
...but the third party risks (service providers collecting usage data, tracking, profiling, users in many cases basically even have to give up ownership of their data, hacks/breaches) are unbearable and uncontrollable.
So to me it makes more sense to advice in direction of a self-controlled backup/synch solution on site or with a few more trustworthy cloud service providers that do not have tainted their business model to sell gathered user information/data.
Depending on the individual data backup and data retention needs users can pick up an off the shelve solution for data backup, that usually is somewhat end user friendly almost on the level "Granny/Gramps proof". ;-)
I've helped a bunch of friends and family and even some smb's with such low end, low maintenance, cost effective "shoot and forget" solutions. Some even, because of their data sharing needs cloud based. Some of these little "pro bono", on the side projects have proven to be very reliable and some are in use for a decade and more with very little adjustments (capacity adjustments, patching and so on).
For example integrating a little NAS solution for instance is really a piece of cake for most but in some cases even a local USB connected drive does the trick sufficiently.
Cheers!
Lucky