Topband: Noise in the Shack - A new noise!

[Bob K6UJ]

I'm with Bill,  I still use external drives for backups for the same reason, but am tempted with "the cloud"
Maybe our worries are unfounded ?  Do the "cloud" systems back up the data  (on external hard drives, :-)       ?

Bob
K6UJ

On Jul 6, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Bill Cromwell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 -0400, W2PM wrote:
>> I'm done with external drives and now use cloud based backup services. Never worry now about the timelinness and availability of the backups. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can't get past the fact that in the cloud I would be entrusting
> complete strangers with *everything* I have on record including the
> privacy of my data. I just don't trust any big city strangers that much.
> If the security and safety of your data doesn't matter that much why
> bother about the expense of "the cloud"? YMMV.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H
> 
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