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Originally Posted by haertig
If you do end up putting stuff on a commercial solution like DropBox, GoogleDrive, etc. - make sure you are well versed in security, encryption, and stuff like that. You don't want (at least I don't want) to have stuff on these 3rd party servers that those 3rd parties could decrypt. You want to control that aspect totally on your own IMHO. Those 3rd parties should never see even one byte of your data that is not well encrypted by you, outside of their control/influence. It does you no good if they state that your data is automatically encrypted - when THEY can decrypt it. Their encryption may help in some scenarios - other people couldn't decrypt it - but you're putting your trust into that 3rd party who could decrypt it if they had a mind to. I wouldn't trust them, or trust the government that may force them to decrypt it even if unwilling.
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Personally, I don't care if they can decrypt it or not - I don't have any sensitive data there. They can decrypt my ebooks, saved webpages, cat pictures and wallpaper collection to their heart's content.
I have very little truly sensitive data at all - I guess I'm an extremely boring person.
As to keeping my data at someone else's place, there's no one I visit often enough to keep it up to date. My parents are dead and I'm basically a recluse, so no friends.
And there's no one in my family who would be interested in my stuff after my death, so that's not a problem.