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Old 24-04-08, 10:10 AM
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Originally Posted by wilf View Post
You can buy a 500Gbyte external hard drive with auto back up software (Maxtor) for under £70 and then your data is safe in your hands, not someone else who I would trust not to give it to the government/taxman or whoever as far as I could throw them.

Paranoid? You need to be...................no such thing as privacy anymore, even your local authority can tap your 'phone/set investigators on you/trespass on your property for the merest of reasons.
Most of the online backup services encrypt the data on ingest so you'd need the decryption key for it to be of any use. No-ones gonna want to pinch Paul's porno collection anyhow
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