Is it safe for aspiring writers (or writers in general) to save their work to a cloud server?

In addition. I know it’s unlikely that any of my work would be stolen, but I just want to be extra thorough.

No. Not only is this a bad idea but if it does get stolen it’s extremely hard to find out who stole it. Doing computer forensics on the cloud is very difficult. Also if you read the terms they are not responsible for data loss.

Important files and information should always be stored locally.

I just use the 60 dollar a year Amazon Cloud thing and encrypt with rclone. Run rclone with CRON every-night and encrypted backups of ~ without thinking about it.

It will produce gibberish. However, if you lose the keys your data can not be recovered.

http://imgur.com/a/nlQ3K

It is a bit convoluted to set up but is cheap and your data can’t be read by anyone.

I don’t store anything in the cloud.

Thanks everyone I have decided to just keep saving my writings locally and via a few backups.

@NerdyKeith I am not aware of and “issue” with iCloud last week. I must have missed it. I was angry with Apple not giving people the choice of iCloud or not to begin with. What happened?

@si3tech a group threatened to hack Apple and retrieve millions of iCloud accounts unless they paid them a lot of money.

Source

I’m also a content developer and here is my theory… all my clouds are set to private so a regular person can’t just view any document. If hackers hack the entire cloud the chances of them actually using what they found on my cloud is slim to none. They don’t have time to read that stuff… they are scraping more personal information like social security numbers, passwords and account numbers they’re hoping you’ve saved in the cloud.