On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 02:16:07PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote: > Just make sure that you either keep backups of the local copy, or make > sure the sync process won't delete stuff from the local copy. Otherwise, > if the provider (or you, or you mail client) "gets it wrong" and your mail > disappears from the server, then it'll also disappear from your locally > synced copy as well. > > [...] used social engineering against Apple to > get access to the account - and then deleted all the photos held online. > But because photo syncing was on, the journalist found all his photos > disappearing from his devices as well as the cloud.
In other words, you always need proper (ie, versioned) backups. Using a "cloud" is no excuse, as those guys are not paid to be competent (from your point of view), they're paid to generate revenue. -- A tit a day keeps the vet away. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
