Google Drive: Stash Your Stuff in the Cloud? - Comments Page 2

Is anything uploaded encrypted? Who has access to it? Can the Federal Government obtain access whenever it likes? How private are the data files? Privacy is a concern for some United States Citizens. Just saying.

I feel, many people have no idea about this type of storage system. The main idea of that is to have access to info from virtually everywhere. Of course, if you have an Internet connection. So the speed isn't an issue. It's not just another storage for your computer. It's like you have money under your bed or in your bank account. It's fast and easy to take some bucks from under your bed and it doesn't require any formalities, but you are unable to get them, when you are out of your home, right? But you can use your money from your bank account from virtually anywhere - if you find an ATM or bank office, of course, or, again, have and Internet connection for online banking. Like with cloud storage, there are drawbacks - your bank knows everything about your money, you have to spend some time to access your money - by filling forms in an office or by logging in your online account. Why are you so concern about your info at Google's services, but not so concern about your money it your bank? What the difference?

Another funny concern about security. Why funny? Do you send highly encrypted e-mails only? You don't? Read e-mail standards - your mail is just a text that could be easily read by anybody, who got network packets by sniffer program, for example. Well, you code your mail, but what about signals between your computer and your screen? It's just an electromagnetic signals without any encryption that could be easily intercepted by a relatively simple equipment. Yes, any cable or wire works as an antenna. And, of course, wireless keyboards. The rest of your precious information you already have posted in social networks. You guys are funny! Really.

And some real life experience. Now I am far of my home. I have all necessary info with me, but one of flash drives stopped working - I am unable to read info from it. I have backups, of course, but anyway - cloud services have better backup systems. I've never used them since I am pretty seldom far from my computers, but right now I see advantages of such services and plan to get an account there. There is such thing as paranoia, it is professional in my case. But anyone's paranoia should be limited by some common sense. Be reasonable.

Yes indeed -- Google's already a good friend!
Thanks Bob

If I correctly sinc my Google Drive to my E-Z Contact address book (and I'm not sure I have) then make changes in the address book, should it also change in the Google Drive file?

Love your note on my comment! I should have done some proofreading of my own. I'm still laughing...thanks again. :-)

I really like these cloud storage services. I personally don't store any personal info on them, but I do upload all my gadget's user guides. I also subscribe to numerous tech, gadget, and PC newsletters, which contain all sorts of articles, tips, help guides, informative articles, etc...When I find things I want to keep, I save them as PDF files into a folder on my PC. Then I save/upload copies to my cloud storage services for easy access. For example, I subscribe to some Excel Tips newsletters. I use Excel a lot at work. When I find great tips that I can use to on my job, I save the article and upload it to the cloud service. When I'm at work, and need to find a better way to do something, I can just look through all my saved article files on Excel and get step by step tutorials. I also save a bunch of PC troubleshooting articles, so if I run into an issue where I can't boot my PC or can't access my PC files, I have the info at my fingertips from my cloud drive. I have my smartphone and tablet user manuals on my cloud drives in case I need to look up how to do something. I love the convenience of this. It's all at my fingertips whenever I need it. (If anything happens to my cloud drive files, I still have copies on my PC at home.)So for me, these services really come in handy. One could even store receipt copies, copies of warranties. If I want to cook a new recipe, I save a copy to my cloud drive, then when I'm in the store, I can open it and check for all my ingredients. There are so many uses.

ADrive.com is offering a free 50 gig storage. It's free because it is ads supported which means the site will get its revenue from advertisers.It is fast in its uploads too using HTML5, and the nicest thing is that it won't affect the speed of your browsing nor the speed of your pc as a whole.

I was asked to pay a license fee for google docs. is this a legitimate charge?

EDITOR'S NOTE: No, Google Docs is free. Maybe you're thinking of Google Apps for Business?