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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
cromag, SpiderOak looks good. But a lot of my Linux friends say all of this cloud stuff (Drive, Dropbox, Copy, Spideroak, whatever) is bogus because they can do what they want with your info and you should just do something like rsync or something like that.
Is there anything to that or are they just paranoid?
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I agree, they are just paranoid.
Think about it this way: They have so much darn information about you anyway. What exactly do you risk by storing your pictures and documents and stuff there?
They have your credit card information, for heavens sake.
rsync is a perfectly decent tool, I use it myself -- because an external hard drive plus my time in writing scripts, is cheaper than monthly fees for premium storage.
I certainly am not afraid of them "doing whatever they want with my info". I wish them much luck in getting anything valuable, e.g. Amazon already has my shopping habits, their knowledge of my personal pictures is considerably less useful to them (and could land them in legal trouble for no benefit).
All these companies have no need to steal your data, you already gave it to them long ago.
