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0 pointssimonw2mo ago0 comments

How many of those competitive services would also lock the account if something like this happened?

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ryandrake2mo ago· 3 in thread

Yes, these stories should scare you off of cloud services in general, not one particular vendor. The root problem is that you're storing valuable information on "someone else's computer." And that someone can decide to stop serving you for any or no reason at all, and you are without recourse. This should be totally unacceptable, but somehow the world has normalized it.

Don't keep anything in a cloud service that you couldn't live with losing, unless you keep a local backup. Including and especially your identity (E-mail) which unlocks all your accounts.

eviks2mo ago

No, the root problem is you put all the eggs in one basket ignoring the folk wisdom that predates anything digital

> Don't keep anything in a cloud service that you couldn't live with losing, unless you keep a local backup.

Translated: so do keep everything in a cloud service, just backup it at a fraction of the effort with / insecurity / unreliability / unavailability of your own computer

ryandrake2mo ago

Yes, and, importantly, have a plan to be able to log in to and reset your passwords through e-mail, on all your other services, if you suddenly lose you@yourcloudemail.com

I consider “cloud” to be a single (unreliable) basket. If you have your online stuff spread across 5 cloud providers, than any of them locking you out will disrupt you in some way.

eviks2mo ago

This broad reclassification makes no sense. If you put literal eggs in 5 baskets, then any of them falling down will disrupt your eggs in some way. You're missing the whole point of the principle, which is that it will not disrupt you in the same big way of blocking all your digital life like in the example from the post!

eviks2mo ago

None: your me@NonSelf-HostedMail.com simply wouldn't know about your account at AI.com, so you'd only have your AI account banned

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