Cloud Backup Options

[vimwiz]

devices at separate locations and having them sync with each other. This way the Gooberment isn't checking out your personal documents and photos

If they are speaking to each other over public infrastructure, then of course the government is still watching......

 

[skieur]

devices at separate locations and having them sync with each other. This way the Gooberment isn't checking out your personal documents and photos

If they are speaking to each other over public infrastructure, then of course the government is still watching......

Actually, you can use a 2 mile WIFI router and encrypt and secure your connection through a VPN, which would make it extremely difficult for anyone to be watching.

 

[MGRPhoto]

devices at separate locations and having them sync with each other. This way the Gooberment isn't checking out your personal documents and photos

If they are speaking to each other over public infrastructure, then of course the government is still watching......

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. If you're encrypting your backups/files in the first place... then they sure don't have any chance at getting the data.

 

[vimwiz]

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. .

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

 

[SCraig]

In my personal opinion there are no viable "Cloud" backup options. Period. I would never even consider putting important data in the hands of someone else. Never, no way, will not happen.

I back up all of my photographs to 2 sets of DVD's. One set stays here at home and the other goes to my office.

 

[skieur]

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. .

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

They have broken Tor, SSL, 128 bit and 256 bit encryption. I know of only one encryption system that I doubt the government has broken and that is 4096 bit. used by a site in Europe. The encryption key is held by the user and NOT recorded by the site.

 

[MGRPhoto]

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. .

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

No. They couldn't.

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. .

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

They have broken Tor, SSL, 128 bit and 256 bit encryption. I know of only one encryption system that I doubt the government has broken and that is 4096 bit. used by a site in Europe. The encryption key is held by the user and NOT recorded by the site.

This is literally nothing but jibberish. Tor is just a proxy service that is still up and running so please explain what they "broke". How exactly did they break SSL, 128 and 256 bit encryption when they are all end to end schemes? That makes no sense. It sounds like you read some alarmist blog post filled with misinformation and now you're spreading that around. I work in IT security for a living and your claims make no sense.

 

[BillM]

But it must be true, i just read it right here in the internet and everybody knows you can't put anything on the internet if it isn't true

 

[table1349]

But it must be true, i just read it right here in the internet and everybody knows you can't put anything on the internet if it isn't true

Uhhh........................Bonjour.

 

[table1349]

In my personal opinion there are no viable "Cloud" backup options. Period. I would never even consider putting important data in the hands of someone else. Never, no way, will not happen.

I back up all of my photographs to 2 sets of DVD's. One set stays here at home and the other goes to my office.

I take it you don't use a bank then. They put your important data in the hands of someone else every night in more than one location across the US.

 

[skieur]

They can watch all they want but they don't have the means or the time to decrypt the traffic. .

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

No. They couldn't.

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

They have broken Tor, SSL, 128 bit and 256 bit encryption. I know of only one encryption system that I doubt the government has broken and that is 4096 bit. used by a site in Europe. The encryption key is held by the user and NOT recorded by the site.

This is literally nothing but jibberish. Tor is just a proxy service that is still up and running so please explain what they "broke". How exactly did they break SSL, 128 and 256 bit encryption when they are all end to end schemes? That makes no sense. It sounds like you read some alarmist blog post filled with misinformation and now you're spreading that around. I work in IT security for a living and your claims make no sense.

"Tor is software that you can install on your PC to hide your identity as you browse the web, send emails, and share files. It encrypts anything sent from your PC, so that no one can see who or where you are, even when you are logged into a website using your real name." So, if someone can hack in, identify you, read your emails, find what files you have shared and where you have been browsing, DESPITE your use of Tor, then obviously that person has BROKEN the encryption and purpose and objective of the TOR program.

WHAT PART OF THAT SIMPLE CONCEPT IS JIBBERISH?

You also should not be working in IT if you don't know how encryption is broken.

 

[MGRPhoto]

Its a fairly safe bet they could if they wanted to.

No. They couldn't.

They have broken Tor, SSL, 128 bit and 256 bit encryption. I know of only one encryption system that I doubt the government has broken and that is 4096 bit. used by a site in Europe. The encryption key is held by the user and NOT recorded by the site.

This is literally nothing but jibberish. Tor is just a proxy service that is still up and running so please explain what they "broke". How exactly did they break SSL, 128 and 256 bit encryption when they are all end to end schemes? That makes no sense. It sounds like you read some alarmist blog post filled with misinformation and now you're spreading that around. I work in IT security for a living and your claims make no sense.

"Tor is software that you can install on your PC to hide your identity as you browse the web, send emails, and share files. It encrypts anything sent from your PC, so that no one can see who or where you are, even when you are logged into a website using your real name." So, if someone can hack in, identify you, read your emails, find what files you have shared and where you have been browsing, DESPITE your use of Tor, then obviously that person has BROKEN the encryption and purpose and objective of the TOR program.

WHAT PART OF THAT SIMPLE CONCEPT IS JIBBERISH?

You also should not be working in IT if you don't know how encryption is broken.

As I said... Tor is nothing but a proxy service with an encryption layer. I'm guessing you don't know what a proxy service is or how it works but they've been around for decades. Tor even started in the early 2000's. All it does is route all users traffic through a central network so that anyone watching would have a harder time deciphering where the traffic originated. When the government or anyone else that wants to see your data they are using things like browser exploits, bots and trojans to watch the traffic from it's origination. It has nothing to do with Tor and they haven't "broken" it or even decrypted any data. Tor uses no end-to-end security like a private VPN. Which is why no one that really wants to hide their tracks uses Tor... they use something like PureVPN or PrivateInternetAccess which provides true end-to-end tunneling over secure protocols.

Encryption schemes that have been broken are done with the use of physical access to machines on both ends, with massive amounts of hardware at their disposal and tons of time and have only been done in lab scenarios.

Again... the government hasn't broken any of the encryption schemes. Private security firms have broken some methods of encryption in labs but no one has cracked over the wire encryption. As I already mentioned they are using exploits completely outside the realm of encryption.

Read this article... maybe you'll learn something. Hopefully you'll learn to actually do some research before pretending to be an expert on something you know nothing about.

 

[skieur]

First try blocked. Trying again.

I like the quote from a former Government security contractor: " If the encryption method is public, then it has been broken."

It is broken by brute force computer power from the new quantum computers, and it is broken by installed back doors as well as the weakening of encryption. Tor was accessed by money as in development costs that were funded by NSA.
The FBI with a bulk warrant accessed all of Tor apparently searching for Dark Force. Needless to say it was able to hack into content.

So, you are the one who does not know what they are talking about and by the way, I never pretended to be an expert, that is your characterization....only someone who does their research, but it is obviously at a different level than yours.

 

[skieur]

Although the article writer does not know it, some of his supposed speculation about back doors was confirmed by regular news accounts about a year ago.Has the NSA really broken ?strong? encryption? | PC Pro blog

 

[IgsEMT]

Two external hard drives and a set of edited and unedited disks