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The Best Private & Secure Cloud Storage in 2024 (blog.thenewoil.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Cloud storage has become ubiquitous in modern society. The most widely-used example, I think, is the one that comes prebundled with our p...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No way. Servers are easier to compromise because they're online all the time and by definition exposed to requests from the public internet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can have a server without a public IP; that's totally doable. An internal server that's only accessible from LAN or a VPN is still a server.

Also, the majority of compromises happen because of user error (e.g., someone opens/runs the wrong thing) or an unpatched machine, not because of an exploit in server software/because the machine is always on. This is especially true in the business world where it's often a combination of human error and the network not being segmented/ACLs not being set properly/etc (lots of cases of human error).

It's also not that unusual for someone to keep their e.g., desktop always on or their laptop/mobile device in a low power state where it still has network activity despite being "off."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes. In practice, servers are easier to own than computers