Storing "My Documents" online

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How secure would it be to store "My documents" online?
I was thinking about using Winrar to compact the folder and password
it. I could then put it on my web space. I was thinking about
creating a page that is not linked and put a link to the file there. I
have noticed that you can access a page that has no link by just adding
it to the end of your URL.
 
Terry said:
How secure would it be to store "My documents" online?
I was thinking about using Winrar to compact the folder and password
it. I could then put it on my web space. I was thinking about
creating a page that is not linked and put a link to the file there. I
have noticed that you can access a page that has no link by just adding
it to the end of your URL.
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Google will find it and so will anyone else that's interested. Invest in
an external hard drive, preferably using a box with a hard drive that
you insert into the box, not the all in one external hard drives. The
former is cheaper and you can change the hard drive if necessary.

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It cannot be denied that "Terry said:
How secure would it be to store "My documents" online?
I was thinking about using Winrar to compact the folder and password
it. I could then put it on my web space. I was thinking about
creating a page that is not linked and put a link to the file there. I
have noticed that you can access a page that has no link by just adding
it to the end of your URL.
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Should be secure enough if you don't give them easily guessable names, and
your site / web space provider is a half reputable one.
 
Should be secure enough if you don't give them easily guessable names, and
your site / web space provider is a half reputable one.
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Storing anything on line is a crap-shoot nowadays. It "might" be
secure, then again it might not. Buy an external USB 2.0 hard drive
or burn the docs to DVDs. Better decision, IMO.
 
Storing anything on line is a crap-shoot nowadays. It "might" be
secure, then again it might not. Buy an external USB 2.0 hard drive
or burn the docs to DVDs. Better decision, IMO.
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True, but then it's a cost-free solution for those who may already have
plenty of free ISP webspace. It also has the advantage of providing access
to documents from anywhere in the world, without worrying about which
particular disks you are carrying with you. So each to their own.
 
Terry said:
How secure would it be to store "My documents" online?
I was thinking about using Winrar to compact the folder and password
it. I could then put it on my web space. I was thinking about
creating a page that is not linked and put a link to the file there. I
have noticed that you can access a page that has no link by just adding
it to the end of your URL.
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A few suggestions:
1) Protect the RAR file with a strong password (long, upper+lower case,
numbers, and special symbols -- tH!$is@NeXampLe)
2) Create a password-protected folder with a long non-obvious name (avoid
"my files", "my documents", etc) and give it a strong password
-or-
Create an FTP account to the odd-named folder and protect the FTP account
with a strong password AND place a copy of the home page in the folder.
3) Some sites have a function -- and some scripts can do it -- where it will
e-mail you if someone access the folder/page. Check into this.
4) Upgrade your sign in and password for the site to unusual/non-obvious
name and strong password (so no-one can read the work you've done above!)

* Google won't find it because it doesn't exist to Google or other bots.
* If someone thinks you have a protected folder, it will be such a lot of
work for them to figure it out that they won't bother.
* If someone does figure out the name of the folder and add it to the site's
URL, the copy of the home page will automatically load, defeating their
intentions.
* If someone does access the folder, you will receive an e-mail (or you can
have the e-mail formatted so it messages your Cel).
* If someone defeats all these steps and downloads to file, they still have
to crack the strong password.

Note: This advice is given 'gratis' and as such is "use at your own risk".
 
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