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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I'm not sure that security is necessarily the main consideration, it's more a case of taking control of one's own books and the access to them, rather than relying on some corporate entity's dreadful software. I can only speak for myself but my personal cloud storage is merely a convenient means to an end. I don't rely on it as my sole backup.
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I have a small personal cloud (100 Go) mostly for frequent encrypted back-ups of the encrypted partition in my PC (10 Go, 5 Go free, some 300 Ko zipped, and for sharing photos or other data too big to send via emails. When on the go, AND with at least 3G connections, I occasionally use it to backup holiday photos, but it's usually a pain, and I carry an external hard drive.
The reason I won't use Microsoft or such clouds is I don't trust them. I don't know what they will do with my data, and the way all of them obfuscate what is going on and how to control one's data. All those sites making you accept unreadable Terms of Agreement before you can do anything (and telling you they can change it whenever they want, and you should check them regularly..). What is called in France a "contrat léonin" - a lion's contract, which has no validity because it is one-sided.
And of course I backup my data often, with one set hard drives off-site (and all my hard drives are encrypted of course).
Incidentally my encryption codes are randomly generated lines of characters.