All it takes is a police warrant to raid or a fire/flooding/hurricane on your home, and your local stuff is gone too, which is why I use local and online backup. I did consider some kind of portable backup and storing at a different location, but I could not find something that was cost effective and reliable enough. Cheers, Nick
Ditto. When out of town, I back up new / changed files to thumb drive and/or upload to my domain's host.
A safe deposit box is reliable, though not terribly convenient. And cost effective (free) as long as a certain balance is maintained.
Apples to oranges. I've never seen Truecrypt try to connect out. So your data isn't going anywhere. Whether or not there's a backdoor is a different issue. Sure there's some trust involved there. But compare it to leaving your data unencrypted, and forwarding backup copies to some online host you also have to trust. I think it's obvious which scenario offers better privacy. That said 99% of my data is on an external drive with no encryption whatsoever, because it's not sensitive. So it wouldn't hurt to send that to an online backup service. So I wouldn't say never to do it, but recommend people not do it with their sensitive data.
I use a couple different (free) cloud storage sites to back-up stuff like my school work. Anything personal/sensitive is stored locally on my own external hard drives. The most sensitive information is printed. Password are not in plain-text, but they are in a format that I can decipher. Not much control over bank statements, tax records, etc.
Agreed. Not to mention the fact that TrueCrypt is opensource and its code can be reviewed by anyone willing to dig in and check it out.
Google Drive drops prices. http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...ashes_Drive_prices_by_up_to_80_?taxonomyId=19
I use Dropbox to share files or to store files that I need on different locations. For backup I use external HDDs. hqsec
