Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
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Don't trust cloud services with your creative work.
#enshittification #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity #writing #art
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mkj
in reply to Pheonix • • •Certainly not the first time Google has elected to remove someone's access to that person's own data!
And it's not like there are contact details easily available for how to get in touch with a human being to sort that out, or even just, you know, *get a friggin' archive that you can restore to some other service* or even locally on your own computer and keep working.
Basically, when this happens you're toast.
Own your data!
Absolute minimum: HAVE GOOD BACKUPS.
@pheonix
#WritingCommunity
mkj
in reply to mkj • • •As a separate note, this is also one of the reasons why I dislike the idea of using the same service provider for everything. Spread things out. Balkanize your Internet footprint. It might be a little less convenient, but it means that a single company, maybe even by a single mistake or a single failed card payment or someone successfully guessing a single password, can't *simultaneously* lock you out of, say, your (1) email, (2) documents, (3) passwords, and (4) phone.
#WritingCommunity
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in reply to mkj • • •@mkj
3-2-1
three backups on two different types of device and 1 is placed offsite
mkj
in reply to οΏ½ • • •@utf_7 Oh, we can certainly talk about *how* to back data up. I posted about my own backup scheme at michael.kjorling.se/blog/2024/β¦ a year and a half ago; a few details have changed, but it's broadly the same.
But how many who use cloud services like (in the example in this thread) Google Docs have *any* backup whatsoever of that data, let alone a recent one which they can use to pick back up where they were?
Having *any* backup at all is about a billion times better than having none.
@pheonix
My data backup setup (as of early 2024)
Michael KjΓΆrling (michael.kjorling.se)Cassandrich
in reply to mkj • • •Acin β
in reply to Cassandrich • • •yeah, that's been true for every time I've heard of this happening. Google doesn't return the files to the writer. But they're used by algorithms indefinitely.
Cassandrich
in reply to Acin β • • •Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈ
in reply to Pheonix • • •Robin Adams
in reply to Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈ • • •Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP π¨π¦πΉπ΄ββοΈπ· πΊοΈ
in reply to Robin Adams • • •I could see that but I would still be saving it locally as often as practicable, just in case so only the last changes might be lost if the "cloud' goes belly up so to speak.
Alexander Dyas
in reply to Pheonix • • •Jackie ππ³οΈββ§οΈβ
in reply to Pheonix • • •use libre office.
Don't use #ZionistMicrosoft
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in reply to Jackie ππ³οΈββ§οΈβ • • •It's true, Microsoft has large campuses in Israel. And everything on a Windows home computer is now sent to their cloud for AI processing.
Yoss1960
in reply to Pheonix • • •libramoon
in reply to Pheonix • • •Jim Patterson π¨π¦
in reply to Pheonix • • •There are a number of zero-knowledge cloud services out there - I use Mega, Spider Oak is another. They only store encrypted stuff, so can't scan it for terms of service violations. (You need your own tools to create docs of course).
Still some level of trust involved, but much less chance of censorship.
cbackup.com/articles/zero-knowβ¦
#ZeroKnowledge
Top 6 Best Zero-Knowledge Cloud Storage Services
Jonna (CBackup)