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<blockquote data-quote="Wave" data-source="post: 556839">If you&#039;re worried about an attacker gaining access to your files in the event of a cloud network becoming compromised then stick with Google Drive... How often do you hear about Google becoming compromised? That&#039;s right, you don&#039;t, because it&#039;s more rare. Of course they do get hacked (e.g. people win the bug bounties sometimes), but nothing major really happens because they have excellent and top-notch security - the employees watching everything over really know what they are doing. As for Google itself (the search engine), I cannot remember the last time someone successfully managed to carry out a DDoS attack which didn&#039;t become mitigated... Google is always online for me, for as long as I can remember, and the only time websites like YouTube go down for me is when they are undergoing manual maintenance, as opposed to it being a result of an attack.If you do not wish to have your documents decrypted via the private key once you&#039;ve re-downloaded the archive then just password-protect the archive and be done with it - your files will still be safe as long as you had used at least AES-256 encryption for the password and chose a long and complex password (which will fight against brute-force attempts as it&#039;ll take longer for it to become successful).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wave, post: 556839"] If you're worried about an attacker gaining access to your files in the event of a cloud network becoming compromised then stick with Google Drive... How often do you hear about Google becoming compromised? That's right, you don't, because it's more rare. Of course they do get hacked (e.g. people win the bug bounties sometimes), but nothing major really happens because they have excellent and top-notch security - the employees watching everything over really know what they are doing. As for Google itself (the search engine), I cannot remember the last time someone successfully managed to carry out a DDoS attack which didn't become mitigated... Google is always online for me, for as long as I can remember, and the only time websites like YouTube go down for me is when they are undergoing manual maintenance, as opposed to it being a result of an attack. If you do not wish to have your documents decrypted via the private key once you've re-downloaded the archive then just password-protect the archive and be done with it - your files will still be safe as long as you had used at least AES-256 encryption for the password and chose a long and complex password (which will fight against brute-force attempts as it'll take longer for it to become successful). [/QUOTE]

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