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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by compiler-guy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:32PM (#22239185)
Yep. If I screw up, then the worst case is pretty much that the data is gone.

If the cloud provider screws up, then the worst case is that my video goes viral and lives on the internet forever.

It isn't hard to imagine some troll finding he got some embarrassing video via takeout and putting it up on reddit for everyone to see.

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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by blowski on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @02:24PM (#22239848)
Other worst cases - you leave the firewall wide open, and some script kiddies steal the photos, replace them with kiddie porn and refer you to the police.
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Re:Some Google Photos videos in backups were sent to strange... by compiler-guy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:51PM (#22241413)
This is a risk regardless of where I store my data. If I have a machine with any local storage of any kind at all, then someone could break in and store stuff there.

So this is not a differentiator between storing your own data in the cloud and locally.

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