Re:GitHub and Rails: You have let us all down.
by stdbrouw on Sunday March 04, 2012 @08:56PM
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"No matter how trustworthy, reliable, and secure they try to be, every one makes mistakes." Which can include you. I get that it'd be pretty hard for anyone else to access code that is just on your own laptop plus encrypted off-site backup storage, but once you get to the point where you need to collaborate with other people and need some sort of a service available on the web, I'd put more trust in the security chops of a trustworthy third party than I would in myself.
I know it can be a faf to setup proper reliable secure backups and so forth (though with git it shouldn't be too hard give the whole thing is designed with wide but efficient distribution in mind), but if you stuff is sensitive enough (in a business sense, some other financial sense, or for more personal reasons) to care about keeping private then I would think twice before trusting a third party with the data. No matter how trustworthy, reliable, and secure they try to be, every one makes mistakes.
Maybe I'm just paranoid. Or just plain old fashioned. But "everything in the cloud" just scares me. Keep public stuff on public services by all means, but keep your private stuff under greater control.