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08-01-2012, 04:10 PM
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| Ho hum     
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 | Dropbox hacked. Do you trust 'the cloud'? Dropbox confirms it was hacked, assures it's safe | News | TechRadar Seems Dropbox was hacked. With companies urging us to store stuff on the cloud do you trust it? Google seemed to think demand for it's 8 Gig Nexus 7 would far outstrip the 16 Gig version as we'd store stuff on the cloud. It didn't happen and the 16 Gig Nexus sold out. It just feels to me like cloud storage will be an awful temptation to hackers with all that data stored in same place! One target instead of many.
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08-01-2012, 04:26 PM
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| Senior Member 
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"My whole family got screwed over when the cloud was repossessed" lmao Yeah ... always smart to keep your bits in a box. A fireproof one with keys. Also known as a safe. Why store stuff on "the cloud" when you can get external drives for a song and mirror them til the cows come home? Any company or corporation that has no physical back up of data (in more than one location) is begging to fail. Cloud.... still lmao.
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08-01-2012, 04:27 PM
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| CEO Fallen Angel Designs 
sutatS tidE
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08-01-2012, 04:32 PM
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| The Purple   
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: 20. January 2007 Client: NaCl | I don't trust the cloud. Never have, never will. It quite simply means dropping your files on somebody else's sever for storage, and completely into their control. I very much prefer to just rent my own server for that case. If you want, even email hosters serve you that problem.
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08-01-2012, 04:39 PM
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| Particle Laboratory Elf  Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Hillcrest, San Diego, USA
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  | Trust isn't an all or nothing thing with me. For example, I trust strangers on the street not to punch me in my face... I don't trust them to hold my wallet. 'The Cloud' is the same way. I trust it (and dropbox) with a lot of trivial stuff. I don't trust it with any of my financials or sensitive private data. It's all a matter of choosing the right tool for the job. (even if that tool happens to be, heh, a 'ghost'  ) |
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08-01-2012, 04:57 PM
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| That template guy 
Meshing Around
| I use dropbox for moving video and animation between people working on a project since it's easier than driving somewhere with a thumb drive. I absolutely would not use the cloud to store anything sensitive or trust it as an only backup. |
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08-01-2012, 05:13 PM
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| CEO Fallen Angel Designs
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08-01-2012, 05:24 PM
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08-01-2012, 05:31 PM
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| CEO Fallen Angel Designs
sutatS tidE
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Client: Firestorm 4 | I just love the double standard here.. others call people "cunts" and nobody says anything. I say "stupid question" with a SMILEY, for Ghu's sake, and get called out for it? Pathetic. |
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08-01-2012, 06:29 PM
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| Ginger Supremacist 
Heya ^_^
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: 3/9/2006 | Businesses want us to trust the Cloud because it means reoccuring Subscriptions. Also it makes it easier for "The Man" to track you.
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08-01-2012, 06:31 PM
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| Lustful Cockmonster *SLU Supporter*    
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: October 2004 Blog Entries: 1 | Dropbox was not hacked. One employee's gmail account was hacked. In that gmail account was a spreadsheet with a few hundred customer emails. Those emails were used to send spam to customers. But let's stay with irrational hyperbole, that's more fun. 
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08-01-2012, 06:34 PM
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08-01-2012, 06:36 PM
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| Lustful Cockmonster *SLU Supporter*
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08-01-2012, 09:49 PM
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| Aspiring Harpist *SLU Supporter* 
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: November, 2003 Blog Entries: 1 | Stop talking Joshua Nightshade! You're ruining Lordfly's immersion. Hacked I say, Hacked!
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08-01-2012, 10:16 PM
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| Senior Member *SLU Supporter* 
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: October 27, 2007 Client: at the moment, Nirans Blog Entries: 3 | I don't keep anything pf value to anyone in Dropbox even if it did involve the content.
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08-01-2012, 10:20 PM
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08-02-2012, 01:09 AM
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| That Bitch *SLU Supporter* 
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My Mood:  SL Join Date: late 04... that account is deleted now | Quote:
I need a big chunk of data in a centralized location I can access anywhere? that's where I stick it... if it's important, or sensitive, I encrypt it, if not, who fucking cares... what I DON'T do is rely on it as a means of backup, or primary storage.... that's like checking to see if a gun is loaded by looking down the barrel and shaking it around.
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