> >>> On a sunny day (Sat, 28 Jan 2023 08:54:11 +1100) it happened Sylvia Else
>>> snipped-for-privacy@email.invalid wrote in snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>:
>>>
>>>> >>>>> For about 75 Euro (is about the same in US dollars) I bought a 1 TB
>>>>> USB stick...
>>>>> Very small thing, smaller than my thumb.
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting, put Linux ext4 filesystem on it and ran some tests,
>>>>> sort of half expected it to be fake, but writing a 500 GB test file >>>>> worked,
>>>>> so spend some time using it to create backups so as to have >>>>> something that
>>>>> you can carry with you....
>>>>> All of my website, email, code I wrote and one old CD after the >>>>> other..
>>>>> Write speed is slow, but read speed seems high enough for HD video.
>>>>> And it fits in my Raspberry Pi4... or any recent Linux laptop.
>>>>>formatting link>>>>>formatting link>>>>> Old USB socket!
>>>>>
>>>>> So also discovered all my CD-R I burned back in about 2002, so 21
>>>>> years ago (for the mamaticians)
>>>>> still read 100% and mostly at high speed on my LG M-Disc reader....
>>>>> All optical media is stored in light proof alu box...
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean I am used to high capacity, have 2 4 TB harddisks and 2 1 TB
>>>>> harddisks in use,
>>>>> but those suck current, make a little noise too and are relatively big
>>>>> and fragile (dropping is not good for drives),
>>>>> but this is really small and you can drop it as often as you like... >>>>>
>>>>> Who needs cloud storage? carry it anywhere,
>>>>> I have encrypted the USB stick with latest kwantuum particles of >>>>> course...
>>>>>
>>>>> Most suckers that find it will run MS windows, not sure that even
>>>>> recognizes ext4 filesystem?
>>>>> Anyone know?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> These days I store important stuff, strongly encrypted, on Amazon, with
>>>> the advantage that it can be automated, and is off site, so I'm OK even
>>>> if the house burns down.
>>>
>>> Amazon, Microsoft, all US Big Brother reading everything.
>>> If the house burns down I have this USB stick im my pocket.... >>> :-)
>>
>> Since my data is encrypted before it's sent, good luck to Amazon >> reading it.
>
> Perhaps an acceptable solution -- if you don't have much "data"
> (or, more generally, "content").
>
> Note that information leaks just by the fact that you *have* data
> and have chosen to store it on their server. (none of my
> neighbors would think to do such a thing; what does that say
> about them? you??) And, of course, any names you've chosen
> for those "storage entities" can be revealing (BankRecords.tgz, > etc.)
>
> I'd be particularly annoyed at having to store (multiple?) HUGE
> tarballs to archive the many TB of stuff I have, here. Just the
> bandwidth requirements to move it up and back would be silly!
>
> [Packaging things in smaller units would mean maintaining
> multiple secrets.]
>
>
They're encrypted compressed tar files, broken into numbered pieces (usually just one, but the initial backup took more space). So I doubt much could be deduced from the uploaded data.
Sylvia.