Or when this sh*t gets hacked like everything else and your naked *** ends up on the internet for all future employers to see.
If you bother to investigate and understand their security model, you will find that your data is incredibly secure with Crashplan. In fact, it's more secure when stored on their servers than it is on your computer.
Why? Because it's much easier to steal your computer or encounter a virus that can steal your data than it is to break the encryption key and try to reassemble random & discontiguous blocks of data in to actual files.
By default, the encryption keys can only be unlocked with your password. For even more security, you have the option to further encrypt the encryption keys with yet another password or custom 448-bit passphrase - which is not stored on their servers.
Furthermore, your data is not stored as 'files' on their servers. Instead, your data is stored in blocks, which are the individual portions of data that make up the files. If a file changes, the changed portions of that file are stored as additional blocks so that you may restore from previous versions. These blocks are broken up, encrypted, and sent over an encrypted connection. The point is, Crashplan never has any of your 'files' sitting on any of their servers, only the random portions of your files, which are encrypted. So, even if someone could steal their servers and hard drives, they would only see encrypted, assorted, random blocks of data that don't even make up full files.
I don't work for Crashplan, but I use it personally and have had to audit their security model for use in high security enterprise & HIPAA protected environments, so I know a thing or two about it.
I do have some nitpicks with Crashplan over performance and memory management with individual files over 100GB, but their security is as good as it gets.
I've had them for about 6 months, and have been extremely happy with their software and the upload speed, unlike Carbonite and LiveDrive, both of which I have tried previously.
I've been using Crashplan for a while and I highly recommend it. You can try out the software for free and backup to another hard drive or friend's computer. I use both cloud and local backup for quicker restores.
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"Thank you. We will contact you in Mid January about your plan."
Me thinks they might be trying to sell us something. We're see.
If you bother to investigate and understand their security model, you will find that your data is incredibly secure with Crashplan. In fact, it's more secure when stored on their servers than it is on your computer.
Why? Because it's much easier to steal your computer or encounter a virus that can steal your data than it is to break the encryption key and try to reassemble random & discontiguous blocks of data in to actual files.
By default, the encryption keys can only be unlocked with your password. For even more security, you have the option to further encrypt the encryption keys with yet another password or custom 448-bit passphrase - which is not stored on their servers.
Furthermore, your data is not stored as 'files' on their servers. Instead, your data is stored in blocks, which are the individual portions of data that make up the files. If a file changes, the changed portions of that file are stored as additional blocks so that you may restore from previous versions. These blocks are broken up, encrypted, and sent over an encrypted connection. The point is, Crashplan never has any of your 'files' sitting on any of their servers, only the random portions of your files, which are encrypted. So, even if someone could steal their servers and hard drives, they would only see encrypted, assorted, random blocks of data that don't even make up full files.
I don't work for Crashplan, but I use it personally and have had to audit their security model for use in high security enterprise & HIPAA protected environments, so I know a thing or two about it.
I do have some nitpicks with Crashplan over performance and memory management with individual files over 100GB, but their security is as good as it gets.
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/5215-dangers-cloud-computing.html
Thank you!