Barton Gellman Quotes

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Well-secured files don't do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.

Back up everything! You are not invulnerable. Catastrophic data loss can happen to you - one worm or Trojan is all it takes.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, 'I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself!'

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.

When they were done downloading all the information off each hard drive, they took all the computers, all the literature, and loaded everything into a big white truck and left.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.

In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

It's high time for a fresh European alternative to enter the market, taking the existing Internet behemoths head on. What the world needs now is a cloud storage service that is not subject to uncontrolled access by intelligence agencies.

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.

There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

One common puzzle for the security-minded is how to work with confidential data on the road. Sometimes you can't bring your laptop, or don't want to. But working on somebody else's machine exposes you to malware and leaves behind all kinds of electronic trails.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

I've always shied away from online data storage. I don't even use my employers' network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself.

I used Evernote almost exclusively for researching 'The 4-Hour Body.' I was able to eliminate all of the perpetually open tabs and multiple bookmarking services. It's also all automatically backed up to Evernote, which gives me peace of mind.