Posted on 12/28/2024 3:23:12 PM PST by Steven Scharf
‘Business’ isn’t the ONLY entity that should avoid the cloud!
“Reason # 1 not to use subscription services for mission critical operations.”
What would you recommend?
There are PLENTY of websites out there that your SSN and your NAME tied together.
(And they ain’t all government!)
“Anyone with internet access can find your SS number.”
Sure, but they have to pay $50 for it and leave breadcrumbs.
Of course they can try the Dark Web, but considering that place is crawling with feds, one has to be careful there when breaking the law.
I’ve always thought it unwise to let anyone else hold your data or to use licensed software to process it.
“There are PLENTY of websites out there that your SSN and your NAME tied together.”
Name one. I’ll see if mine is there.
Unfortunately.
I don’t keep any data in the “cloud,” period. It’s all local, even my email. I have two local off-line backups as well.
Imagine if Quicken shut down.
Have done accounting since 1957.
WOULD NEVER STORE ANY OF MY RECORDS OFF SITE.
HAD MY OWN SOFTWARE TO DO BOOKKEEPING FOR OTHERS-—AND THEY STORED THEIR OWN COPIES.
When I was done with a client-—I deleted their data.
I have PAPER records of my own back over 50 years. DOESN’T take that much room to store them.
I’ll take the opportunity to mention that it’s the sadistic tax code that requires this sort of record keeping, and that if the income tax were replaced with the NRST then businesses wouldn’t need to have this vulnerability depending on third parties so much for tax compliance.
YOU can’t get to the data.
See if you can look up your driver’s license data online.
Or your taxes, or your deep medical data, or the dossier the FBI has on you.
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