Re: On privacy and cloud services

2013-06-16 20:42, Darrell Prince` skrev:
> Self hosted also leads risk of data loss; few people have data mirrors
> set up. No data loss has to be a key feature, as well. Would it be
> possible to keep people's data in encrypted chunks on other servers and
> laptops ?

I believe a future market will become third-party backups that integrate
with your personal data storage. So you either have an unencrypted
backup with whatever backup service provider you choose, or you have a
box checked that says "can only be opened with YOUR private key], blah
blah, risks, blah".

The competition will be who integrates it most neatly with your
services, has the best reputation and makes it the easiest to restore.

A federated social network would build on open source and open
standards. My point being:
* Backup (format, method, etc.) is the least of our worries.


(and until that market has emerged, we 1%ers set up rsync/duplicity with
10 year backlog to our 5 geographically separated servers, each running
a different hardened operating system, to avoid all theoretical
computery attacks apart from The Wrench(tm))

> For me; I would want to know whenever people accessed my information
> whether I know them or not. Is there a way to create audit trails with
> ISP locations on them?

As soon as you publish your data, you lose that kind of control. After
it's out in the open, i.e. with another person, it's all up to morals
and/or jurisdiction. Nothing technical can solve access control after a
third party has received a copy.

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Mikael Nordfeldth
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