Security for Dummies
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Monday 28 July 2008, 6:24 PM
In web we trust?
There is no doubt that the web has changed our lives. We are looking for information, pictures, news, music, video; we are shopping, dating, you name it. We have everything there. We do a lot there. We spend half of life there.
Then why do we still store gigabytes of info at our home PCs? HDD are not reliable enough (3-5 years lifetime?). What are you doing whith your personal data when you upgrade your PC or purchase a new one?
Why the heck not to keep everything online and sleep tight?
I have 2 reasons for it, maybe some of you have more:
1. The performance - it is stil slower than local drive.
2. The trust - we beleive that the closer the safer.
* Yes, we are still thinking that burned DVD will save our data for promised 100 years! LOL
* No, we do not trust these guys at the server side. We do not beleive that they will take care about our data better than we do. But we do not... we do not take any care at all :)
So what can the internet offer? There are 2 major types of online storage by purpose: sharing and offsite storage/backup (of course most of services offer a combination of both)
See the full story here
Then why do we still store gigabytes of info at our home PCs? HDD are not reliable enough (3-5 years lifetime?). What are you doing whith your personal data when you upgrade your PC or purchase a new one?
Why the heck not to keep everything online and sleep tight?
I have 2 reasons for it, maybe some of you have more:
1. The performance - it is stil slower than local drive.
2. The trust - we beleive that the closer the safer.
* Yes, we are still thinking that burned DVD will save our data for promised 100 years! LOL
* No, we do not trust these guys at the server side. We do not beleive that they will take care about our data better than we do. But we do not... we do not take any care at all :)
So what can the internet offer? There are 2 major types of online storage by purpose: sharing and offsite storage/backup (of course most of services offer a combination of both)
See the full story here
PreviousComments on this post
Hi there pathologist....
Interesting comments, I've chosen to store all my beloved photos on the eye pleasing eyefetch site, my facebook page, 2 USB flash drives, optical media, and my free gig on the bt digital vault.
Pretty much the same with music; theres my trusty zen the,flashdrives,
etc, etc, and boy was I thankfull when my HD went down!!
For word stuff, as well as all the above, I've found web based e mail usefull for keeping smaller files as attachments.
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