I believe HIP uses Amazon Servers not Google. But anything is hackable. the only Data I have on my personal pc is the clients address, email and phone #. But all that info is easily gotten and is public information. I never get CC info, check info etc. My payment processor does that for me, Authorize.net is a secure service and encrypted.
Only an assertion about your statement. You made a statement as fact that was merely your opinion., that’s ridiculous.
Now you want me to defend a statement I didn’t make.
Only a fool laughs at themselves while mocking others.
Oh, I forgot Ryan, you’re always right! IMHO
I transfer all my reports using the cloud.
But I also send all my reports via email, which also uses the cloud.
IMO we should all take precautions to protect data, but if some hacker in a land far far away, or maybe even your neighbor, decides they want your information, if they’re good enough, not only can they most likely get it, but there’s a good chance it’s already available on some black cyber market somewhere.
The first time my personal data was stolen was back in the late 90s when someone stole a laptop out of a car of a Boeing employee that had thousands of employees information on it. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve received emails or letters informing me that the bank, insurance company or whatever had their system hacked and my personal information was stolen.
IMO the best thing we all can and should do is monitor our accounts and credit for any suspicious activity. It’s just the world we live in today.
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I didn’t read is as such, but whatever, I will restate my position…
In my opinion, the cloud is more secure for data storage than a personal computer connected to the internet is. What is your opinion Bob?
I don’t care.
Well, thanks for your input, lol. And thanks for monitoring a thread you don’t care about to make sure everyone identifies their statements as opinion or fact. Keep up the great work Bob! 
As William stated, most of our data is stored on Amazon, though we do use Google for mapping and some other tech. In the case of HIP, data is always saved on your computer so saving on the cloud is technically adding a second location.
I will say that now we are part of a public company HOLY CRAP! We are having to go through 10x the security checks we did before, are working on something called SOX compliance for the SEC to make sure data is secure, we have to get our servers pen tested (software looking for vulnerabilities), meet with a security team regularly, way more credit card PCI compliance, etc. Nothing is perfect, you see Facebook, Twitter, even Last Pass which is a security password manager get hacked but we are definitely going through WAY more security protocols and checks then ever before to make sure we are legally compliant, have servers protected, etc.
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And yet, even AFTER I give you credible sources for dozens of data breaches for each one of those platforms - individually - you REFUSE to acknowledge the inherent risk… Isn’t there a “syndrome” for that kind of behavior???
PS: Of course I would expect Google to attempt to defend themselves on this subject by placing content more friendly to their security breaches than is warranted. Also that whole keyphrase thing they have going on to capture the majority of those inquiries should be of concern as well - in my opinion.
It’s right there in the last sentence of my post you quoted, lol
… seriously??
That’s a deflection, not an acknowledgement.
I’m not really even sure what you’d like me to acknowledge. That the cloud is not 100% secure? That Google and others sometimes get hacked? I acknowledge those things. And I still stand by my statement that the cloud is safer for data storage than a stranger’s personal computer connected to the internet. The key word here is safer. In other words, not perfect, but better than the alternative.
So the “cloud” is somehow safer than a “stranger”??
How do you even connect those dots?
Nevermind, consider those both rhetorical as I don’t need/want an answer.
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Yes.
No need to connect them. They are separate things.
Oops. Didn’t see this part. Disregard the above.
Wow! …you really do have to have the last word. 
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I don’t think I do.
Ok, just kidding on that one, lol. It has been a good discussion Steven. I totally respect your position on data security. It is very important. Over and out.
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