Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
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Additional Resources:
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Don't use ANY form of a cloud if you actually care about your privacy. Local backups only.
This is terrible advice if you even somewhat care about data loss, security, and syncing up content on many devices.
Can you explain further? I'd like to hear other viewpoints on this. It's possible I am an idiot.
In form of data backup you should follow the 3 2 1 rule, which involves off-site backups, which is cloud storage. If you plan on accessing anything out of the house, that involves self hosting which means exposing your devices to the greater internet. Each thing you expose is now a new service that needs constant maintenance and potential security issues, not including everything you may misconfigure. That's a lot of security issues for a regular person. You also need to self host these things if you want to sync real time between your devices, which is also important for backups.
Wait I'm so sorry. I are you saying my advice is bad? Or OP's?
As in not using cloud backups is bad idea
I mean what if you just had 2 HDDs mirrored on site and then like 1 or 2 copies off site? That's basically the 3 2 1 rule but manual
Yeah, that'd be cloud storage lol
Lol gotchya.