Cloud Storage, Is It Safe?

We live in the era where having at least a smartphone is the norm. Some even have more than one devices and some are even aged below ten years old. Like it or not, smartphone has become part of our life, and especially, the account that we made with it.

Just can't get enough toys these days

Your Cloud Account

These account, be it Google, Apple, or Microsoft account; will be used to store our data. Our name, birthday, physical address, and email address should be a given since it is what we've typed down when registering. But overtime these accounts evolved to storing our contacts, photos, videos, files, browsing history, bookmarks, notes, and many more. These account will become the very life and identity you have.

The One Account to rule them all

The Good

This can be a good thing. Imagine if you have multiple devices and can access all your files without the hassle of copying it all over again to your other device. Contacts will be saved automatically to all devices even if you change your phone. Some even feature locating, locking, or even erasing data of your device if it ever get stolen.

Android Device Manager web interface

The Bad

As your account become very important, it becomes fatal if it ever was lost or even worst, hacked into. If something something is deleted in the Cloud, every device you have will have that file deleted too, this could be a good thing or a bad thing. Also, this basically mean your data is out there and unless your read the Term and Condition (who does?), you don't know where and how it's stored.

Beware of Black Hat Hackers

Some Reasons To Be Worried

There are many problems with relying on the Cloud too much, such as the case with NSA and FBI who can ask these companies to give them our data should they ask to do so, or the most recently famous incident called "The Fappening" where photos of celebrities were stolen from their iCloud and made public. As much as I'd like to still have faith in humanity, there are bad people out there.

Relying on cloud can be a good thing but there are danger that lies with it too. Some people are even paranoid enough to get disconnected from the cloud as much as possible. What are your thoughts on saving everything on the cloud?