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by Cthulhu_ 3432 days ago
> securely in the cloud

isn't this a contradiction? Given how the NSA and co have backdoors in the cloud and such, and can order the operators of said cloud service to release information from their users.

If you have sensitive stuff, best not to cross any borders I'd say. Stay away from the US.

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Here's a simple hack. Anonymously lease N inexpensive VPS. Archive your stuff (perhaps a VM) with tar, encrypt with gpg, and use split to get N pieces. Use bbcp to put distinct subsets of pieces on each VPS, such that any M of the N VPS will give your stuff back.
Consider SpiderOak or similar things that encrypt data on the client side and never upload the key.
Borg is the best backup software I've found, for what it's worth.