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silverdragon
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Cloud Storage. Sept 8, 2014 7:42:57 GMT

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Post by silverdragon on Sept 8, 2014 7:42:57 GMT

Cloud Storage, DO NOT TRUST.
Chatter on the web has now completely verified if I know where to look for you online backups, I can simply now just download them and "Restore" them to my own machine.
Scared yet?...
You should be.
The online backup system requires that I know you user name and can guess a password...
How easy is that?... seeing as many passwords were easily guessed to hack photos of certain celebrities recently, if your password is easy to guess because you want to not forget it, well?....

If you machine breaks down terminally, you want easy access to your cloud data to restore to a new machine, so I dont even have to be on your network or your machine, I just need to know where you store your data.
The rest is easily spoofed.

Right... so stop trusting the Cloud.... OK?....

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Cloud Storage. Sept 8, 2014 15:27:18 GMT

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Post by the light works on Sept 8, 2014 15:27:18 GMT

Sept 8, 2014 7:42:57 GMT silverdragon said:

Cloud Storage, DO NOT TRUST.
Chatter on the web has now completely verified if I know where to look for you online backups, I can simply now just download them and "Restore" them to my own machine.
Scared yet?...
You should be.
The online backup system requires that I know you user name and can guess a password...
How easy is that?... seeing as many passwords were easily guessed to hack photos of certain celebrities recently, if your password is easy to guess because you want to not forget it, well?....

If you machine breaks down terminally, you want easy access to your cloud data to restore to a new machine, so I dont even have to be on your network or your machine, I just need to know where you store your data.
The rest is easily spoofed.

Right... so stop trusting the Cloud.... OK?....

one of my brother's friends worked for a while in a job that required updating their password every month. his idea of updating his password was to add a random keystroke. - at the time I talked to him, his password consisted of 12 random keystrokes. - which to a brute force password engine would be no harder to guess than "yourpassword" (this was back when passwords were all lower case letters)
though obviously a significant word or phrase is easier for a live hacker to guess. adding caps, numbers and symbols increases the challenge by giving more options to have to guess. and yes, backups are much better as physical media in a safe place.

silverdragon
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Cloud Storage. Sept 9, 2014 8:43:46 GMT

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Post by silverdragon on Sept 9, 2014 8:43:46 GMT

I keep a book in which I write all user details.
That way, I can use complicated passwords and not forget them.

So what if someone gets the book?....
Ok, so, you have by now broken into my house, you are in my room, you have a bookshelf, and some old diaries....
Your going to spend time reading the diaries?...

By the way, you really think I keep diaries?... that is an example of what type of disguise could be used.
But that book is not a big red cover with "All my security details are in here" written in bold type on the cover is it?....

-x-clacks-GNU Terry Pratchett----Release the Clan Mac Feegle, awae hame ye scunners.[p]Most of my Job is avoiding Stupid. ...You cant Fix Stupid. Especially when you turn Left at Hammerhead.

kharnynb Evil Senior Member Posts: 2,834	Cloud Storage. Sept 15, 2014 19:42:29 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by kharnynb on Sept 15, 2014 19:42:29 GMT I'm using some cloud storage from f-secure, as they are a safer third party compared to microsoft/google/apple. Plus, their business is safety. All my passwords are letter/number/special symbol combos anyway.
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