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Re:Bitcrypt broken by jewel on Thursday February 20, 2014 @10:31PM (#7275297)
That is a good idea. I have considered having a network service like that, but I'm a little too paranoid. I want something that will survive heretofore unseen events, like a 0-day remote root exploit in the Linux kernel networking stack.

If such a remote root exploit exists, and the person that discovers it decides to write something like the Code Red worm from 2001, and also decides to have the worm erase all block devices, I'd currently lose every file I have and all of my backups, even though they are geographically dispersed. It's possible that even services like S3 and Dropbox would be wiped in such an event.

Once again, I realize I'm unusually paranoid in this regard, but I really don't want to lose my stuff.

Re:Bitcrypt broken by tachion on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:27AM (#7275970)
Not everything is running on Linux you know, and therefore not everything is prone to the 0 day remote Linux kernel exploit. Get yourself other backup layers on other operatying systems, like Tarsnap, that runs FreeBSD, and you should get another level of security.
Re:Bitcrypt broken by borplk on Friday February 21, 2014 @11:31AM (#7277695)
Don't Amazon services such as Glacier effectively guarantee you wont lose the data? (as in, they take proper offline backups and everything?)
Re:Bitcrypt broken by gaadd33 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @11:19PM (#7275420)
You could just store backups on tape and ship them to a secure storage facility run by Iron Mountain.