RSS BotMicrosoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal
On the 17th of last month, Reddit user u/deus03690 shared how Microsoft locked their account, which, among other things, contained 30 years of “irreplaceable photos and work” on OneDrive.
Who the Fuck is so stupid to store important information online without an offline backup?
explodicleIf you’re not a computer nerd, it’s common to think Microsoft has a bunch of backups and that’s the whole point of the cloud. He’s not particularly stupid, he just got scammed like thousands of others.
In a just world, he’d successfully sue MS for damages.
It is not about whether a cloud provider has the necessary failure prevention techniques. This is about sovereignity over your own data.
If you store your data in a cloud, and it is not your cloud, then the owner of that cloud can cut off your access to this data at any time. With the usual contracts, your means to counter such moves are moot at best.
Having important data in your own hands is vital. I do not put data on the net that i cannot afford to lose - either, I don’t care (e.g. like the contents of this post, if it gets deleted, I’m not hurt), or I do have the data here, in my own home, on my own servers, on my own backups.
You’re right of course, but look at this like someone who’s not a nerd. You don’t have to maintain your own car. You don’t have to cook your own meals. You don’t have to fix your own plumbing or electricity. If you get sold a lemon, or were fed spoiled food, or your apartment is unlivable, then it’s not really your fault and you often have legal recourse.
But you do have to learn a lot about the computer, and if you do it wrong everybody just calls you stupid. I’m lucky it’s not like that for dancing.
This guy is a LibreOffice developer. He should be smarter than the average Internet Idiot. By far. By all means, he should know not to trust Microsoft.
And comparing this to maintaing a car or house is comparing apples and oranges. In those cases, I have rather clear legal means to get my rights. Online, not so much. And even worse for those living outside the US.
Fair, I was referring more to u/deus03690.
I’d even call him/her an idiot. Assuming the “30 years of irreplacable data” means that he/she is around on the internet for at least half the time, even this person should have learned from many cases like this that online only storage is not viable, especially for important data.