[Hidden-tech] Music-video storage in the cloud

[Ron Miller]

I think it's worth noting that if you're willing to pay more for enterprise class backup you can get back with encryption with an SLA that guarantees the security of your documents. This is not something that most users like Jeff who asked the question need to be concerned with, but those who worried about personal or business files, it could be worthwhile to pay the extra money for the additional security.

Ron


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On May 19, 2010, at 12:13 AM, Roger Williams wrote:

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>>>>>> Kevin Phillips <kevin at kpitconsulting.com> writes:
> 
>> How is the privacy of your files using these services ?
> 
> Frankly, weak.  I know of no backup service providers who provide a guarantee
> that stored data will not be accessible by its employees nor that the results
> of such employee access not be released upon request to courts or interested
> law enforcement organisations.  Most providers specifically spell out such
> exceptions in their TOS.
> 
> Moreover, all of the popular online backup services rely on encryption in the
> link (SSL) and cloud (AES usually), rather than encryption with your own key
> in the client before it's uploaded.  This means that the data is unencrypted
> some of the time on their servers.
> 
> So... you shouldn't use one of the consumer-oriented services if you're a
> Chinese dissident because it's presumptively insecure against your risks.
> 
> More to the point: given the current environment and the likelihood of ACTA
> (which as of March includes a provision to require ISPs to provide information
> about suspected copyright infringers without a warrant) or similar
> legislation, I would be very careful about borrowed or ripped media.
> I rip DVDs that I own for playback convenience and protection of the original
> media (I have kids), but I won't backup these files up to an online service.
> 
> For my business, we've been relying on the traditional model of local backup
> to tape (from a local server, which provides primary backup for individual
> computers) with off-site tape storage.  We may replace the tapes with cloud-
> based storage -- but in this case, the locally-stored backups are already
> encrypted with our own keys before we upload them.
> 
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