I use Apple products because they are not vulnerable to security problems <NOT>

[Larommi]

Cloud storage is useful and very handy, but I certainly wouldn't use it for anything critical or extremely personal. But it is, OK for stuff you don't care about.

That is all my dropbox account is used for. Shit I don't care about. Anything personal is backed up on two media types in a fire proof safe.

[slgrieb]

That is all my dropbox account is used for. Shit I don't care about. Anything personal is backed up on two media types in a fire proof safe.

Agreed. These days, external drives are so cheap you can keep a couple on hand and treat them like tape cartridges. I also have some photographs, etc. backed up on DVD. Web based backup services like Carbonite, etc. may be a final fallback option, but I think their advertising is a little misleading. Files actually aren't backed up in realtime as they are created or edited and restoring data is slow, slow, slow. So, I definitely prefer local storage I can control directly.