TODAY’S DEEP DIVE: Poof! It’s all gone! [Your photos!]

Kim Kommando Newsletter ^ | September 02, 2025 | Kim Kommando

[BenLurkin]

Well at least it isn’t the crypto-bucks.

[thinden]

bttt

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is why you buy memory sticks and store your stuff on that.

Cloud is a vapor. Just a bit of sun or wind and all gone.

[ChronicMA]

right now my biggest issue with yahoo mail is they make me change my password almost every time I log in. Gone are the days I could remember my password, now I have to write it down each time. They want to tell me its to help protect me, but they are in practice just trying to get me to lock myself out.

[Red Badger]

Remember, The Cloud is just someone elses computer..............

[Red Badger]

Here where I work, we use a cybersecurity company that makes us change our passwords every six months exactly...............

[EnderWiggin1970]

This is kind of a variation on the crypto mantra “Not your keys, not your coins.” If you are trusting the cloud to store your stuff, your stuff is not under your own control, so don’t be surprised if it is lost/seized/censored someday.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I bet the Goog NEVER deletes photos, just the owner’s credentials to login.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yep.

I had a client ask about my security. I told him that I used air gap.

[ConservativeMind]

Good reminder!

[caver]

Thanks for the post!

I keep my photos backed up on about 4 different drives, etc. They are all relatively small. I also keep my music backed up on those same four drives. I don’t do any Cloud backups.

[Deaf and Discerning]

One word:

Backups.

[Faith65]

bkmk

[ridesthemiles]

PLAIN OLD SCRAPBOOKS ARE STILL SUPERIOR.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Most tech companies have policies that let them totally wipe out your account and everything in it if you haven’t signed in for a while.

Bummer, but c’mon man! What sentient being would expect otherwise from a free service?

[Vermont Lt]

If you are not backing up your iPhone phones to a hard drive (or multiple hard drives) you will eventually lose them.

It’s a once a month habit that I’ve gotten into.

I was a professional photographer and had about 12 TB of photos on arrayed drives. Backing up your important digital work has to be a habit.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The pay services do it as well.

[broken_clock]

Backing up your important digital work has to be a habit.

Thats a bingo!

Backing up to a stick or drive is a pain but it’s the only way to be sure.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Backup.
Backup.
Backup.
Backup.
Backup.
Backup.
Backup.
Backup.