cloud storage
Store and share files across the internet
In modern life, people change devices many times a day. However, very often, they work with the same files. When transferring files by hard-disks, USB sticks, other external storage or sending by mail, you can easily become a victim of many different fragmented versions. Nowadays, however there are systems available that solve that problem by storing your data in the cloud. This way, it is available on every device, wherever you are, as long as you are connected to the internet.
<strong>Challenge:</strong>
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<li>Find an online hosting service for your files.</li>
<li>Find out how to upload your files and upload at least 3.</li>
<li>Change one of your files and save it. Now look into the version history and try to undo your action by re-activating the older version.</li>
<li>Is there an integration of the hosting service into you operating system? How can you make use of this?</li>
<li>Now try to find your uploaded files on a different device (e.g. smartphone)</li>
<li>Share one of the files with a friend of yours.</li>
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Access your computer over internet in a secure way
Accessing you own data is getting more and more important.
Part of it is already accessible from "everywhere", when stored with your emails. But "the cloud" is not that advanced yet and so there are documents you only have on your computer.
Imagine you switch place for a couple of days, and still want to be able to look something up.
One possibility was to create a backup and store all documents you might need on an external drive - a tedious process, and will forget the <em>one important</em> document.
You could also open a port for Windows' Remote Desktop connection, but for security reasons this is not a choice.
There should be a secure way to access the data.
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