Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.
I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
You don't need to be a spook to care about encryption. If you travel with your computer or keep it in a place where other people can put their hands on it, you're vulnerable.
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.
It doesn't matter what you have if you can't protect it.
There is an unarguable downside to unbreakable encryption.
I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files.