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Originally Posted by Z-man
Cloud is the future of storage. Apple's doing it, and you've got services like Dropbox.
Convenient, but kinda scary too: I don't want all my info out there where it is far easier to hack into.
-Z
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Do you really think it's easier for someone to hack an Apple (or Google, or Microsoft, or whoever) data repository than a home network? Just curious and I'm not an IT guy, but I'd tend to think that well-funded data repositories with everything to lose reputation-wise take data security very, very seriously and employ lots of cutting-edge technologies and probably have lots of the "best and brightest" constantly shoring it up. Yes, it represents a central target, but I'd think if there's anything in the world that would be well-defended, those sorts of storage places would be it.
I'm more worried about some knucklehead hacking into my WiFi, but (1) I lock it down and keep it secure and (2) anywhere my WiFi signal reaches can also be reached by at least five different caliber weapons from the upstairs of my house, so I'm not too worried.
I think the BIGGEST threat to data security (for me personally at least) is copying crap onto flash drives (or smart phones) and then forgetting about it. I almost had that happen once. Never again. Be VERY careful with those things and use encryption (i.e. BitLocker or similar) if at all possible! Get a phone that can be tracked/wiped/bricked if it EVER goes missing also - and make sure you put at least halfway decent password protection apps on anything sensitive.