Posted on 03/17/2012 10:18:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Question: When is a friend not a friend?
Answer: When his name is David... David Friend.
You may have heard the ads on the radio that Carbonite is the way to go when it comes to saving back-up copies of your computer files. Well it's not the only way to go. Take my Seagate one-hundred gigabyte back-up drive, it does everything that Carbonite does and for less. But I'm not here to shout out about Seagate nor any other storage device manufacturer...I'm sure there's other reputable builders out there. What I am here to talk about is the hypocrisy of Carbonite's CEO, David Friend.
Over at World Net Daily (WND) today there's a piece about Carbonite's stock taking a dive after the Rush Limbaugh incident (apparently investors are on Limbaugh's side but that's another story). What I find most disturbing about the WND article is the following:
"The Washington Times noted Friend has a long history of contributing to left-leaning candidates and causes. Citing Accuracy in Media, the Times reports Friend donated generously to the Howard Dean, John Kerry, and Barack Obama presidential campaigns, as well as several 527 groups such as "America Coming Together," moveon.org, and "Texans for Truth."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Basement=two car garage plus workshop. Those garage doors are not exactly watertight but I see your point. Of course the backups are to DVD disks so water is not an issue.
Yeah, I’m against just about anything that has centralized in it.
Centralized data, government, distribution, etc. Failure at that one point is failure of the system.
It happened twice in my life. One was an electrical issue and the other mechanical. One windows the other Mac.
The only thing offsite does better is, they are off site. The chances of your home and their servers catching fire is so rare, you would need to be a Clinton associate to beat the odds.
If you backup your data with a company that lets you specify your own private key, then your data is encrypted on your machine BEFORE it goes up into the cloud ... and not even the CIA can decrypt it with all the computers in the world.
If, on the other hand, you let the company provide the key, then yes they could in theory get at your data.
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