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In reality, as i went into in another thread, A hacker isn't going to waste time trying to find YOUR computer online and try to break in. Its easier to physically break into someones home and just take their computer. Basically YOU (each of you out there) are not interesting enough for the effort involved unless you've publically let on you have data worth money to someone.
Its far safer instead to target a cloud service, test their security and reliability with exploits and attacks and end up with a database of accounts and then access all the data you all store there. Or even social engineering to gain access. To many the risk is worth the reward.
People in general are lazy and blindly storing data online so someone else can look after it is just giving up control. My data stays with ME where I can keep it secure, when an online storage company gets into financial difficulties they don't announce "hey we'll be dead in a week, grab your files now before they are lost forever". You're putting your data and trust in a bunch of strangers plus plumbers, electricians etc which gain physical access to where the servers may be stored. Plus you're paying them for it, Plus you're paying money for bandwith so you have slower access to files than a NAS provides. Its just idiocy for something thats laughably simple to look after yourself.
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