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To: Bullish

“Even though I really have nothing to hide, I wouldn’t trust any 3rd party to have access to my entire hard drives. The potential for monkey business is just too great, IMO.”

BINGO! “Cloud” is just another fancy name for “another entity which hosts your information”. If I wanted my online stuff accessed from another location in the word, we use remote viewers to access our pc’s anytime, anywhere. Or better yet, bring our compact external hard drives.


23 posted on 04/25/2012 10:33:18 PM PDT by max americana
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To: max americana

“Even though I really have nothing to hide, I wouldn’t trust any 3rd party to have access to my entire hard drives. The potential for monkey business is just too great, IMO.”

BINGO! “Cloud” is just another fancy name for “another entity which hosts your information”. If I wanted my online stuff accessed from another location in the word, we use remote viewers to access our pc’s anytime, anywhere. Or better yet, bring our compact external hard drives.


One word: Encryption.

Encrypt your backed up data and security concerns are essentially nil.


29 posted on 04/26/2012 1:20:47 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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