How do you ensure privacy and security on cloud platforms in an age of compromised encryption, backdoors, and AI-driven hacking threats to encryption and user confidentiality?
Let’s say you’ve created a film and need to securely upload the master copy to the cloud. You want to encrypt it before uploading to prevent unauthorized access. What program would you use to achieve this?
Now, let’s consider the worst-case scenario: the encryption software itself could have a backdoor, or perhaps you’re worried about AI-driven hacking techniques targeting your encryption.
Additionally, imagine your film is being used to train AI databases or is exposed to potential brute-force attacks while stored in the cloud.
What steps would you take to ensure your content is protected against a wide range of threats and prevent it from being accessed, leaked, or released without your consent?
I’m going to deviate a bit from your question, since you asked a bunch of questions, and aim at the implied question underneath: “is there any hope for a non-expert?”
A Synology network attached storage device (NAS) provides reasonably good answers to the question “how can I have privacy and have some backups” without being a Linux expert.
It ships with apps that replace common cloud services with local backup equivalents.
It can also be configured to do local encryption before backing up to a cloud service, for data where disaster resilience is more critical than privacy (i.e. a library of family photos).
Edit: And as others have explained - we must always remember that the cloud is just someone else’s computer.