Third-Party Data Storage Risks
Comments discuss risks of storing sensitive data on third-party servers, cloud services, or others' computers, including exfiltration, leaks, theft, and loss of control, often advocating for local self-hosted storage instead.
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These days it's wise to assume that, if data exists, it's also stored outside of your control somewhere.
If you're an international spy or something, maybe don't store your top secret data on consumer-grade electronics.
Not everyone is ok with you exfiltrating their data to your computer.
Perhaps he has data that he doesn't want people looking at if it's lost or stolen.
Great—so potentially subject to even less security/privacy controls compared to other places they could've stored it.
If they store the data, it can still be leaked.
Why the hell do they even have these top secret data over the network? They should cold store anything sensitive.
When you really, really don't want your data to end up in the wrong hands.
They'll have your data if they just take the whole server...
Wtf...Even if you were going to comply, how can you be sure they wouldn't steal YOUR data?