[AccessD] Do you use Dropbox?

I agree and am afraid that our best form of security is that, what we are
saving has no real importance or profit to anyone else.

That said, the biggest danger most of us face is our own carelessness and as
you point out reliance on one type and/or location of backup. One client
recently remarked something like, "How many backups do you have?" He was
remarking how there were so many libraries of daily backups, backups of the
backup, off-site backup and drive images (he doesn't know about the Cloud
backups yet). When I describe the code and how a record is never deleted
just hidden and cross-references itself a few times, I am sure his eyes
rolled and he thought it all a bit obsessive. Mind you the fellow has never
so much as lost a single record and he just sees that as a normal state of
affairs.

Backup are rarely to protect us from others but to protect us from
ourselves.

A few years ago, and I have not been able to find it again, there was a
podcast on the subject about our near future and our integration with
recording of our lives. Right now, many of our moment to moment thoughts and
images are shown to everyone and stored forever. We may be looking at a
future where all our action, movements, comments, visuals will be recorded
24x7...and then can be replayed but anyone...sort of like a perfect memory.
(If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.) Step number one
Google Glass.

On another note, Google is now providing a service, which will allow all our
stored files, data, passwords to be passed on to our next of kin, in the
event of our demise or escape to a cabin in the deep wood and total
rejection of electricity. I am not sure whether I want my every thought to
be known forever, by everyone. What is life without mystery? 

Jim     

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The worst security for your data is drive failure and no backup, or the
backup fails as well. Which has happened to me with more than one PC
(multiple times) and backups stored on more than one USB drive, using
Acronis True Image. That is what kills your work. I couldn't really give
two shoes about whether someone really gets into my data on the cloud
unless I was particularly targeted, and I can't think why that would happen
unless I left them something obvious like my accounts and passwords in the
open. If DB as a whole got hacked, I think there would be a long long line
of more interesting accounts for people who cared, to hack into, before
checking out my files and pics.

Google Glass, OTOH scares the bejeezuz out of me.