Why you should not trust critical data social networks and other services

I've been working a long time columnist for the online services, programs and products similar topic - since 2004 the once popular blog "An online stuff" Layfhaker since 2007. I can not remember all fakapy services, we constantly use to you, but in my head there was a clear understanding of the design of "reliability" of these services. It is as follows:

If long enough to use a web service (such for many years), then the probability that it will merge your data to the side is very high!

And here we are not talking about the fact that facebook and other networks constantly give your personal information to third parties - this is their core business in general. Here we are talking about that regularly with web services is something going on, and thousands of millions of accounts accrue entirely to outsiders. it It was with Evernote, It was with Dropbox, Accounts of my friends consistently break in VKontakte, constantly we hear in the news that has been hacked email account or a political activist.

But the last straw for writing this, most of the discussion of fasting, was the news that Facebook just took it and opened the data of 6 million people are in open access. No malicious intent, the company says, it just happened, and we will no longer.

Here's the official Facebook message about it: "As a result of a fault while loading the archive of your account on Facebook with the tool Download Your Information (» Download a copy of your information », DYI) the user can receive e-mail addresses and phone numbers of other users from your contact list, or those with whom he was in any way linked to the social network. "

Those. It has absolutely no importance what the visibility settings you set in the range of more or less long time. If you want the data to your address, place of work, the mobile phone does not fall into foreign hands, not just share them on the social network! Do not fold the photo with the kids on Google+ or Facebook only for themselves. Do not write a personal diary in the web service, even if it is closed with visibility only for you. Think for a moment what will happen if some people simply deflate your intimate diary and give it publicity. What will your children have become adults, if their golopopye photos will be used in a porn clip as banners? What if …

Instead of putting some something horrible to limitless Claudio Google, Yahoo, facebook, VK and Co., Sort data locally, and do backups to an external drive or use something more secure and less universal for hacking.

Perhaps you have an opinion different from mine, and I am sure that it perfectly complements the picture, if you leave it in the comments.