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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1834679" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Back in the day, when Apple launched its email service closely followed by a cloud based data storage offer my peers and I were naturally a little sceptical about both the safety and the need for such a service. We all had personal backup strategies in place and could not see how a remote data base would be better.</p><p>I had all my music and photos backed up on CD’s as well as the games and apps that had not already come on instal disks. I stored all my documents on an external drive. I persisted with this method even after the introduction of the iPhone, syncing what I wanted and removing what I didn’t via USB to iTunes.</p><p>None of my data was “out there” everything was “in house”.</p><p></p><p>The point that I’m making is that this is still entirely possible to do, if anything it’s easier.</p><p>If all your data is stored locally and your only connections to the internet are email and a web browser then it’s fairly easy to contain the risk of contamination or compromise.</p><p></p><p>Cloud based storage is about convenience after all. Syncing photos, notes, calendars, Keychain, browser and mail data across devices. It’s not really a necessity. As a backup it has some advantages but it is nowhere near as efficient as a local backup like Time Machine or a bootable clone.</p><p></p><p>Once all your data is in one place you can check for contamination with eg DetectX Swift or similar.</p><p></p><p>You can erase and rebuild your iPad using apps like iMazing.</p><p>You can store, create and manage your passwords with a locally stored offline password manager like Enpass.</p><p>You can secure most of your online data with end to end encryption using a good VPN service like Express VPN. There are even secure encrypted email clients if you want to go that far.</p><p></p><p>The thing is, if you have control of your data and devices there is very little risk involved.</p><p></p><p>There are some things you cannot avoid like Find My, what used to be called Find My iPhone. This is an integral part of Apple’s security system 2FA. There is no harm in syncing Mail to iCloud as they have access to that already, the same goes for reminders but that’s about all.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPad using <a href="http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677" target="_blank">Mac-Forums</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1834679, member: 204485"] Back in the day, when Apple launched its email service closely followed by a cloud based data storage offer my peers and I were naturally a little sceptical about both the safety and the need for such a service. We all had personal backup strategies in place and could not see how a remote data base would be better. I had all my music and photos backed up on CD’s as well as the games and apps that had not already come on instal disks. I stored all my documents on an external drive. I persisted with this method even after the introduction of the iPhone, syncing what I wanted and removing what I didn’t via USB to iTunes. None of my data was “out there” everything was “in house”. The point that I’m making is that this is still entirely possible to do, if anything it’s easier. If all your data is stored locally and your only connections to the internet are email and a web browser then it’s fairly easy to contain the risk of contamination or compromise. Cloud based storage is about convenience after all. Syncing photos, notes, calendars, Keychain, browser and mail data across devices. It’s not really a necessity. As a backup it has some advantages but it is nowhere near as efficient as a local backup like Time Machine or a bootable clone. Once all your data is in one place you can check for contamination with eg DetectX Swift or similar. You can erase and rebuild your iPad using apps like iMazing. You can store, create and manage your passwords with a locally stored offline password manager like Enpass. You can secure most of your online data with end to end encryption using a good VPN service like Express VPN. There are even secure encrypted email clients if you want to go that far. The thing is, if you have control of your data and devices there is very little risk involved. There are some things you cannot avoid like Find My, what used to be called Find My iPhone. This is an integral part of Apple’s security system 2FA. There is no harm in syncing Mail to iCloud as they have access to that already, the same goes for reminders but that’s about all. Sent from my iPad using [url=http://r.tapatalk.com/byo?rid=95677]Mac-Forums[/url] [/QUOTE]
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