bootster Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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OK, so now we have it settled. The Russians intercepted 3 min of network traffic to certain large companies cloud systems, twice yesterday in an interval that spanned 2 hours. The attacks had routed all network traffic from Apple, Google, and others for a total of 6 min. That may not seem like a lot, but the fact is that couldn't be farther from the truth.
It's time to think about doing what I have done, build your own cloud, or just use an external local network, if you want to forgo the convenience of streaming data over the internet at will, in order to protect your data if you are thinking about letting a web based cloud store your precious data. The truthfulness of this article is starting to show up more and more, so I'm going to presume it's true as this information could either be suppressed to keep it from going viral, or just being swept under the rug for security reasons. I am starting to find more articles about this, and I'm going to take it to be true for the time being, as the internet has a way of manipulating data sometimes for less than honest purposes.
The real purpose I went out of my way to even spend the time to post this is to allow fellow photographers to be aware of the true risks of not backing up your data. If I had all my data on a web based cloud service, I would immediately take actions to get it backed up somewhere else.
Now that net neutrality is at risk, we need to think twice about allowing anything to be stored on the web based cloud services without a true to form backup.
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