{"id":14153,"date":"2013-04-23T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T22:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=14153"},"modified":"2013-04-23T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T22:04:06","slug":"safety-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/safety-in-the-cloud.html","title":{"rendered":"Safety in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>For those who are students, or who do research and\/or write for a living, the data we have \u2013 papers that are due, articles that we are working on \u2013 is more valuable than the devices we use to write on. And so anyone who is not currently using <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tt\/MkGjouD\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dropbox<\/a>, or Google Drive, or some other such method to automatically synchronize their data not only across devices but to the cloud where a backup is stored, is taking an unnecessary risk. The image below which <a href=\"http:\/\/unsettledchristianity.com\/2013\/04\/among-the-saddest-things-youll-see-on-the-net-today\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+unsettledchristianityblog+%28Unsettled+Christianity%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">friends of mine shared<\/a> provides an indication of what can happen if one chooses to live so recklessly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-14154\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/04\/lost-laptop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"768\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are students, or who do research and\/or write for a living, the data we have \u2013 papers that are due, articles that we are working on \u2013 is more valuable than the devices we use to write on. And so anyone who is not currently using Dropbox, or Google Drive, or some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":14154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,96],"tags":[1966,2093,2458,2862,2867,4071,6347,10433,11928,11936,11988],"class_list":["post-14153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-computer","tag-data","tag-drive","tag-dropbox","tag-google","tag-laptop","tag-risk","tag-stolen","tag-storage","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Safety in the Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For those who are students, or who do research and\/or write for a living, the data we have - papers that are due, articles that we are working on - is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/safety-in-the-cloud.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Safety in the Cloud\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For those who are students, or who do research and\/or write for a living, the data we have - papers that are due, articles that we are working on - is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/safety-in-the-cloud.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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