mitigate these risks.
What we mean by "security" is something different. *The service provider
-never has the ability to read or modify your data in the first place—never.*
+never has the ability to read or modify your data in the first place: never.*
If you use Tahoe-LAFS, then all of the threats described above are non-issues
to you. Not only is it easy and inexpensive for the service provider to
maintain the security of your data, but in fact they couldn't violate its
doesn't require you to perform a manual pre-encryption step or cumbersome key
management. (After all, having to do cumbersome manual operations when
storing or accessing your data would nullify one of the primary benefits of
-using cloud storage in the first place—convenience.)
+using cloud storage in the first place: convenience.)
Here's how it works:
-.. image:: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/network-and-reliance-topology.png
+.. image:: network-and-reliance-topology.svg
A "storage grid" is made up of a number of storage servers. A storage server
has direct attached storage (typically one or more hard disks). A "gateway"