Why Would Anyone Be Stupid Enough To Store Anything Private, (Not Just Photos) On Some 'cloud' Storage

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2739215/Jennifer-Lawrence-victim-hacker-leaks-slew-graphic-nude-photos-Oscar-winning-actress.html

[Daffy6543]

Well to answer your question, not really, I was a teenager just out of the care system with no parental support whatsoever. I spent from age 16 to 19 drinking, dancing and taking illegal substances. I rarely drink these days and actually hate being drunk at all.

[Daffy6543]

The cloud isn't that secure really, it can be hacked the same as any other server or website if you know what you are doing.
I would always advise people to not upload important documents and 'sensitive' photos to their cloud accounts. You should also have more that one source of backup for all files.

[Retrochic]

Anyone uploading sensitive documents to a third party storage must be mad. If you have not enough storage on your mobile phone then transfr some stuff to an external hard-drive or your PC/Laptop. Someone I know lost (then found) their mobile phone -they were devastated they had three years of 'photo memories' on it -Why? do you really need to carry three years of photos on your phone? Who cares? As soon as someone pulls out their phone to show me pic after pic I get that sinking feeling.

[sp1814]

AOG

I have a number of Apple devices, all of which are connected to my account via iCloud.

It's extremely useful, if used sensibly. For instance, all my contact information, emails, and calendar info is stored in iCloud and are accessible from any iDevice I may be using.

Also, photos I take on (say) my iPhone whilst out are immediately available on my MacBook when I get home.

What people need to understand is that anything which is stored digitally, is potentially hackable. If anyone wants to see pictures of our terrace being renovated, fine - hack away.

If anyone wants to see the email I sent my mates with my thoughts on 'Sin City 2' - fine, hack away.

However, if anyone wants to see pictures of my penis, then I, afraid they will be out of luck, because there is absolutely no reason in the world why I would take a picture of it, less store it digitally.

[anotheoldgit]

ColinandJess

/// 'The cloud' you are led to believe is secure and in this modern day of tablets and phones without much storage you need someone to store your stuff. ///

Why not on disc or separate hard drives?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// However, if anyone wants to see pictures of my penis, then I, afraid they will be out of luck, because there is absolutely no reason in the world why I would take a picture of it, ///

No zoom, then sp? :0)

[Svejk]

ooof, lol.

[jno]

discs and hard drives deteriorate over time (or maybe overnight if you're unlucky). And they're open to attack by old-fashioned burglars. People who hack the cloud are just new-fashioned burglars. I don't know anything that's completely safe; your biggest defence probably lies in not being an actress whose possessions might be worth burgling.

[youngmafbog]

The risk is no higher than taking your filsm to Boots. Boots were well known for handing your piccies to Plod.

Most place that offer to hold your images for free often get you to click a release for their use.

Nothing in life is free!

[sp1814]

AOG

You asked:

"Why not on disc or separate hard drives?"

The best solution is to keep important photos and documents on your PC and have a regular backup to an external drive. Ideally you would build in 'site contingency' by keep this external drive somewhere else than your home. That way, if there were a fire, you would still have a backup.

Me - I go for the three tier approach...local drive, cloud and external drive which I keep in the office.

The cloud is useful for storing stuff you want to refer to fairly frequently. For me, an external drive is to keep stuff that you want to secure for future reference.

[Answerprancer]

C&J (whispered) [ Hee hee! ...don't tell anyone but AOG thinks the cloud is *actually* ...a cloud ;-) ]

[youngmafbog]

Colin, yes they do it is just a different medium - your SD card and internal phone drive use Flash memory. This sort of memory is also workign its way into PC's - just a bit expensive at theomet.

[Answerprancer]

Never buy anything from theomet!

[Answerprancer]

Yes, they does! Actually mine has internal flash memory but (afaik) most Android phones have micro SD slots.

[Daffy6543]

My android phone doesn't have an SD slot (HTC One Mini) and only has 16gb internal memory.