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Please teach others here about safe use of Cloud services
[vanity] | October 8, 2020 | Albion Wilde

Posted on 10/08/2020 2:25:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde

What cloud services are safe for conservatives from hacking or other mischief? What are best practices and tips for a modestly skilled mac user with no background in programming? (Need replies in ordinary everyday English, as I do not speak Geek.) Grateful for some awesome freeper tutelage. Thanks in advance.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Education; Reference
KEYWORDS: cloud; cloudomputing; macintosh
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I’m getting a warning that I need to add cloud beyond what came free from Apple.

Until I work it out, is there a way to clean out some of your files to create more room?

1 posted on 10/08/2020 2:25:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde
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To: Albion Wilde

Turn it off.


2 posted on 10/08/2020 2:26:11 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: Albion Wilde

If you want privacy, talk to your dog.

Outside.

In a rural area.

Otherwise, fuggedaboutit.


3 posted on 10/08/2020 2:27:20 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: Albion Wilde

ProtonMail is coming out with their ProtonDrive later this fall. Full encryption end-to-end. Stored on their servers in Switzerland.


4 posted on 10/08/2020 2:27:30 PM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: Swordmaker; upchuck; Kid Shelleen; Prov1322; weston; SunkenCiv

Ping!


5 posted on 10/08/2020 2:28:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: rigelkentaurus

I’ve sort of used hushmail some.


6 posted on 10/08/2020 2:28:42 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma)
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To: Albion Wilde

My advice:
Buy an external hard drive.
No need for a “cloud”.


7 posted on 10/08/2020 2:28:48 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Albion Wilde

If anyone knows if any mac geeks in FR besides our esteemed swordmaker, please ping them! Thanks!


8 posted on 10/08/2020 2:30:57 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: Repeal The 17th

My company started pushing this as they prepared for layoffs; didn’t want to re-invent the wheel by re-creating spreadsheets and such already designed. It makes it very convenient to send work to Asia as well.

Ain’t globalization grand? /s


9 posted on 10/08/2020 2:31:15 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Albion Wilde

I personally do NO Cloud Anything, but I also don’t make electronic transaction either and have never had a Social media account, best to remain obscure and hidden from plain sight as much as possible.


10 posted on 10/08/2020 2:33:58 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Repeal The 17th

Do you need some kind of backup program if you use an external hard drive, or does such a program come standard on most recent macs?


11 posted on 10/08/2020 2:34:41 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice." --Donald Trump)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Bingo.


12 posted on 10/08/2020 2:38:30 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Yes back it up! I dropped mine and had to pay over a thousand dollars to get it restored!


13 posted on 10/08/2020 2:39:57 PM PDT by PrayAndVoteConservesInLibsOut
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To: Albion Wilde
I pretty much keep most of my data up in the cloud.

But as for my plans for world domination, I keep those securely hidden in my safe at home.

14 posted on 10/08/2020 2:41:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: Albion Wilde

“I’m getting a warning that I need to add cloud beyond what came free from Apple.”

Dump any device that throws your personal info and files up into the ether.


15 posted on 10/08/2020 2:41:50 PM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Albion Wilde

What do you want to store in the could ? Photos and videos ?


16 posted on 10/08/2020 2:43:07 PM PDT by libh8er
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To: Albion Wilde
It's probably worth coming up with a threat assessment model to determine what you're looking for. If you're looking to keep the government out of it, everything US based is going to be subject to warrants.

If you're looking to avoid getting ads for Cruise lines after uploading your latest cruise photos then some of the more geeky solutions will work. Especially if you encrypt everything first. IE, think Dropbox, not Facebook.

Unfortunately the more geek-free and user friendly something is, there tends to be less privacy. Also, don't forget that if the service is free, you're probably the product.

17 posted on 10/08/2020 2:44:29 PM PDT by tfecw (It's for the children)
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To: Albion Wilde
Infosec professional here: The answer is none.

They are all susceptible to the same risks and all are used by hackers to commit their nefarious acts. Best advice is to secure your VM by following the CIS benchmark standards found here for the OS and application of your choice: https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks/

For learning to code, I highly recommend Code Academy: codeacademy.com

18 posted on 10/08/2020 2:44:40 PM PDT by Intar
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To: Albion Wilde

You can keep it all on your phone instead of having it copy to iCloud and then use iTunes to back it up to your local hard drive. That is what I do. You would need to change settings for each app that has been using iCloud, though.

My wife is paying for the first tier of iCloud backup. I think it is $12 a year or so.


19 posted on 10/08/2020 2:47:33 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

My wife has a way of destroying HDDs of any kind.

I put her on a cloud backup plan.It justified it’s use the last unexpected rebuild/replace.

All she does is Internet and some Word. Keeping 100 plus tabs between 3 browsers might be a factor. I am a lowlife Trump supporter and working IT guy so my opinion means nothing until something goes wrong.

My main PC is a few years old and I do 4k video editing and the like. Pretty much 0 hardware trouble.

Photos and video live in a cloud.

I have very little in terms of documents at all.


20 posted on 10/08/2020 2:48:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma)
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