Backup & resilience6 min read•
Avoid losing years of family photos and business files — why Big Tech bans happen and DRIVUNO is the secure fix
Years of photos and business documents disappear every month behind silent Google, Meta and Apple bans. The fix is architectural: store irreplaceable files outside any system that can lock you out.
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Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.
The pattern is the same every time A small policy signal — a flagged image, a reused password, a reported message — triggers a suspension. The appeal is automated. The data is preserved internally but inaccessible to you. Weeks later, you receive a templated "we will not be restoring access" reply. Years of photos and business files are now permanently out of reach.
Why this keeps getting worse - AI classifiers are tuned to over-block. - Appeals are scaled with more automation, not more reviewers. - Cross-product identity means one ban takes down everything. - Provider liability incentives favour locking out, not restoring.
The files that hurt most when they vanish - Family photos, especially the high-resolution originals. - Business invoices, contracts and tax records. - NDA work and client deliveries. - IDs, scans, medical records. - Authenticator backups and 2FA recovery codes.
"I have a backup" usually is not true Most users' "backup" is another folder on the same provider, or an export that requires the account to be active. Neither survives a ban.
A resilient setup, in three layers - Canonical copy: encrypted vault under your control (DRIVUNO). - Working copy: whatever cloud you like for collaboration. - Cold copy: an external drive or second encrypted vault for disaster recovery.
Why zero-knowledge is the foundation A vault that the provider can read is a vault the provider can lose, leak or lock. DRIVUNO uses Argon2id key derivation and XChaCha20-Poly1305 file sealing on your device. The server stores only ciphertext. A ban on your DRIVUNO account is impossible to weaponise the same way — there is no plaintext to withhold.
The mistake is treating a single Big Tech account as the canonical store of your life's data. The fix is to put the irreplaceable parts behind cryptography you control, before the next silent suspension lands.
Try it in one click.
Three private surfaces. Same zero-knowledge architecture.