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Old 11-05-2012, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by spdrun View Post
If it's truly personal, it's not going on any KloudKrap service. It's staying on a NAS device at home, and getting backed up to an encrypted thumb drive that gets stored somewhere else.

This can (somewhat) be fixed by using key-based encryption to encrypt data BEFORE it's sent over the WWW, so it's stored in encrypted fashion at the endpoint. Many cloud service providers only encrypt in transit.
You seem to grasp good security.

Here is a linked break down for our members, who may have difficulty understanding what you said.

* NAS device ? = A network-attached storage (NAS) device.

* Getting backed up to an encrypted thumb drive?

* Key-based encryption?

* Encrypt data BEFORE it's sent?

* Service providers only encrypt in transit?


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Last edited by whunter; 11-05-2012 at 10:40 PM.
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