Re: On privacy and cloud services

I understand the access control once one gets a copy; I mean my emails, my
browsing history, etc. if da gubament wants to be able to look at it, and
in certain situations, it is reasonable, I should get to know that, and
somebody else should have to agree. If I publish data to a transparent
system, there are certainly ways to create audit trails for record access
on an open source operating system. Are the DBA's in house gonna be able to
get around that, probably but there are non technical solutions for that.
It's gonna be more secure in one place, and more useful.

Right now most of the human races data is like the puzzle in the box.








On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Mikael Nordfeldth <mmn@hethane.se> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Mikael Nordfeldth
> http://blog.mmn-o.se/
> Xmpp/mail: mmn@hethane.se
>
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