[quote=AN]I don’t want to spend thousands trying to build my own raid machine and a temperature controlled room to store those data when I can have unlimited back up for <$100 for 2 years.[/quote]Temperature controlled rooms were needed a long time ago, before the sealed hard drives were invented. Now they are not needed except for large compute clusters, particularly of the super-computer type. Backup storage is also not unlimited as I showed the cost. Only no-cost under a certain size.
[quote=AN]My point is, that's just the way the industry is heading. You can either embrace it and operate under the assumption that your data have already been compromised and take steps to make sure you're protected under that circumstance. Or, you can try and fight the trend. I pick the former, but you're welcome to pick the later if you like. I won't call you dumb, like spdrun does to those who doesn't do what he would do.[/quote]Through my years of experience in this business.. I have seen all statements of how things are 'going to turn out', only to have them refuted as things don't really turn out this way. If you noticed on another page, I have been programming computers/working on them/admin since 1975. Most people who write publications on how things are going to turn out, have a small fraction of that experience. As for calling anyone 'dumb'.. I don't care. I think that name calling reflects more upon the caller than the callee.. Particularly if it is done to someone who has a bit of experience in the subject.
[quote=spdrun]I use Flickr and Facebook as well. For things that I actually wish to have public, not anything else.[/quote]Ditto, particularly the latter. Flickr's 'security' is almost non-existent. I used to be able to get to pages if I knew one of the ref-paths to it, even when the top level was made 'private'.
[quote=AN]I would do what flu does and keep around an old computer that's completely offline to do these business related stuff. That way, it can't be hacked.[/quote]That is what the Iranians thought...
