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On 4/17/2026 7:50 AM, Paul wrote:

On Thu, 4/16/2026 8:30 PM, T wrote:

2)  the communications to and from one drive are encrypted,
but the data storage is not.  M$ swears they do not data
mine it, but I seriously do not believe them.

If you want a web data service, I would recommend you use
something other than One Drive.  I personally adore Ice
Drive as it gives me a drive letter and their support is
world class.  A lot of my customers like Drop Box.

-T

Privacy is not addressed in here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneDrive

"Microsoft has responded by indicating that "strict internal policies
[are] in place to limit access to a user's data", and that advanced mechanisms,
such as Microsoft's automated PhotoDNA scanning tool, are utilized to ensure
users abide with the Code of Conduct "

It would make no particular difference, whether the disk drives were encrypted at rest or not. Since it can be done for free, via FDE,
there's no reason not to do it. But that only protects the content
if someone walks out of the building with it. If the site is hacked,
they can extricate whatever they want (the assumption in hacking,
is you have acquired all the authentication mechanisms -- only the
air-gapped signing machine is not online).

That means you can safely store your copies of the Holy Bible in there.

This article has some colored blocks for comparison of services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services

Proton has the highest (stated) rating, as it says "End-to-end encryption", but something like that would need to be audited.

The best way to ensure an item is handled adequately, is to encrypt it yourself.
and since Q-day is coming, you want to be ready for the Q environment. (Things encrypted with inadequate mechanisms, here today, can be cracked later when Q-day arrives.)

The best thing, is to not store the goods in the cloud at all :-)
It's not a branding issue as such, it's a more serious issue than that.

Paul

Especially where "the cloud" is somebody else's computer. And they can
change the rules daily with and without notification.

Lynn

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