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Opinions on which cloud service one should use for storing images? I reckon none of them are safe in the end but are there any good ones or some that one should definitely avoid?

Opinions on which cloud service one should use for storing images? I reckon none of them are safe in the end but are there any good ones or some that one should definitely avoid?

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[–] [deleted] • 9 pts

Such a thing does not exist.

"The cloud" is just "someone else's computer"

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Jews run most of the large commercial clouds and take orders from ADL and SPLC!

Listen to the Jews demand Poal.co be made illegal for cyber bullying of Jew Holohoax facts!

https://files.catbox.moe/qwid00.mp4

Bwah hah hah!!!!

What a subversive censoring kike!

make your own cloud and rent colocation servers at "free speech" colocation farms.

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These people are hilarious. Talking about protecting free speech while at the same time talking about manipulating it.

What a loser.

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I don't really like trusting my files to any 'cloud' system, --i guess the idea of "decentralized" cloud sounds better, but still.....it's other peoples' computers and therefore any idea of security or privacy is completely absurd. I run an internet connected computer at home using a secure linux distro, and with a software RAID setup. It was easy to find a used/refurbished server online to set it up, for just a couple hundred bucks. No need for special software, I just use ssh and sftp to store my files and I can retreive them from anywhere. For added redundancy I have a 4 Tb portable external hard drive that is small enough to carry in my pocket.

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Why would you do that instead of just storing local? Dont they have stuff to build your own cloud accessible server now too? So if you needed access from more than one location youd still be covered. Roll your own.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

Cloud storage offers really good durability. If you store data on your own hard drive at home, and the data is important to you, you need to do redundancy yourself. Do you have a plan to recover from a hard drive failure? What if your house catches on fire and burns your backups as well?

If you encrypt before uploading they won't even know what it is that you're storing. Just have to make sure you keep your encryption keys safe.

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I have two external encrypted 5T hard drives, one I keep at home and one I keep at a family member’s house. The cloud is too expensive to store video on.

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My NAS has built in support for all of this by default. Simply put multiple drives in and press Go. The NAS does the rest. It is that easy. I never worry about the integrity of my files. I once had a drive go bad and I received a text message that one of my disks had a problem. I simply pulled it out and installed a new one. I was done.

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RAID is not a backup.

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Yeah but in case of fire or tornado you're screwed unless you have an offsite backup.

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Doesn't protect against destruction of NAS.

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You could use a raid setup to mitigate hard drive failure. Your points are totally valid.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Right. It depends on how much you value your data. Cloud services boast some ridiculous durability value like 99.9999999% or probably even higher if they mirror it across multiple data centers. RAID mitigates single disk failures (or multi-disk failures, depending on the type of RAID) but does not protect you from malfunction of the device itself (imagine it writing random data all over your disks), accidental deletions, ransomware attacks, or a house fire.

Cloud isn't inherently good or bad. It's just another tool that you can use. You just have to be aware of the risks and plan accordingly.

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Just have to make sure you keep your encryption keys safe

Probably do like with Bitcoin: use a multi-word phrase to generate the key, so you can write it on paper and store in another location.

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Why would you do that instead of just storing local?

Yeah store local and re-up one at a time if need be on disposable and relatively reliable hosts It's redundant and redundancy is good

It's the most reliable approach

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I run a couple of "cloud" type services here on an Odroid HC2, it has power to spare even with that load.

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Encrypt and any service is fine. Unencrypted and you're apparently sharing them with the world, so it doesn't matter.

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dont rely on encryption. all of it can be cracked now

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1,) implement a zfs raid system using truenas. 2.) makes an encrypted back up to the cloud.

now, it doesn't matter which provider so long as you actually test downloading and extracting the backup every so often.

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use google and put a few safe pictures there to help blend in.. its not always about hiding your profile, but creating a "approved" history

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Thanks all. Great input.

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Check out Akash Networks. Decentralized cloud hosting. https://akash.network/

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Brilliant! I was going to suggest getting your own NAS because a "good" cloud service does not exist. I happen to like Synology because you can share your files with anyone using a simple link. Synology seems to automatically manage your drive arrays. So far I have nothing bad to say about them.

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If you just need modest storage, an old router with USB plug and a HDD/flash drive and OpenWRT/DD-WRT put on it can do what you want.

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I really like that suggestion a lot! I had not thought of that. Thanks!

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