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Encrypting to Amazon Sync
So I finally got my Amazon Sync working and it's currently uploading my first 1TB. Yay!! However, I got to thinking about security. There's a clause in the amazon terms of use that says they can ...
cathcam wrote:
As a matter of interest, what do you mean by Amazon Sync?
Newer OS 6 NAS have an amazon cloud sync integrated - http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/30670/~/how-do-i-use-readynas-os-6.5-with-amazon-cloud-drive
cathcam wrote:
For me thats a bigger reason not to use it, than worrying that one day Amazon will look at my files, or more likely hand them over to some government organization to review.
Not sure what's going there, but if you can't get it to work then it makes sense to find something else.
Amazon might not ever want to look at your files, but anyone who figures out how to access your Amazon Account (either guessing the password or as a result of an amazon security breach) would have full access to everything you have backed up. And Amazon is a tempting target for any cybercriminal.
You might be willing to take that risk, but I'd much rather the files were encrypted using a key that Amazon didn't have.
Once I have my primary NAS resynced, and backup via rsync to a secondary NAS it certainly makes sense to backup offsite, and the amazon price is great. I'll need to get on the phone with them and debug why it's not working. It's not an permissions problem as I can cause those to happen and they are logged.
Next time I have a NAS failure I'll invest in a new model and this will be an interesting addition.
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