[WalterBright]

I won't use cloud storage because:

1. even in Seattle, internet response time is erratic. Delays anywhere from a second to a couple minutes is commonplace. Using an app requiring constant traffic over the internet is quite unpleasant.

2. The backup problem. If my cloud account "goes dark" for whatever reason, I'm dead in the water, and I'm helpless to fix it.

3. I simply won't use a cloud solution that doesn't encrypt the data on my machine before sending it to the cloud server. Encrypting it after it gets to the cloud server is unacceptable. I currently use Jungledisk for backups on Amazon's cloud service because it does encryption locally.

[magic_haze]

I was under the impression that JungleDisk's encryption scheme was not as secure as they claimed[1]. Have they fixed it yet?

[1] http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-06-03-insecurity-in-the... and its discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616634

[2] http://push.cx/2011/retracting-my-jungledisk-recommendation

[radicalbyte]

> 2. The backup problem. If my cloud account "goes dark" > for whatever reason, I'm dead in the water, and > I'm helpless to fix it.

Isn't the cloud part of your back-up strategy? For example, I use OneNote for all of my notes. It syncs the notes on my PC to the cloud. As long as I'm connected, I have a backup online.

Changes also sync to my other computers when they're online.

Additionally, the notebooks are included in the local data backups we make (in our case off-sited to our ISP).

Sensitive stuff is encrypted in TrueCrypt, and the TrueCrypt volume is stored on DropBox. MI5/CIA could probably break the encryption, but there are easier ways for them to get at it.. http://xkcd.com/538/

[glhaynes]

I also wouldn't want to use a cloud storage system that didn't at least have the option to keep a local cache of my data so that I could access it offline and with local speed. But that's how most of the "cloud storage" services I'm familiar with work, so it's not really much of a problem.