That pithy statement is referred to as “Hanlon's Razor“.

It keeps coming to mind as I hear from people who are absolutely convinced that malice is at play in whatever they're experiencing. That's rarely the case.

I love how this question is phrased, because it made me examine backing up — a topic I've written about frequently — in a completely different way. Instead of looking at just the tools and techniques, it made me consider trust.

In so many ways, all the tools and techniques are secondary to your ability to trust a backup. And trust itself can mean several different things.

Spoiler: I don't trust any single method completely. Instead, I trust several methods a lot.

This isn't about how your website is designed — as you note, the HTML doesn't change. It's about how your site is hosted.

When you use https, the connection requested by your browser is different. Behind the scenes, https is a completely different protocol than http. Your web server needs to understand and support that for your site.

How you make that happen isn't standard, but it is getting easier.

Remote Desktop and Remote Assistance both allow remote control of your computer, but they serve different purposes.

Remote Desktop is designed to allow you to “take over” a computer as if you were sitting in front of it. I might use Remote Desktop to use a computer in another room, or one that doesn't even have a keyboard and monitor attached.

Remote Assistance, as its name implies, is designed to allow one person to help another by accessing their computer — either to view or to control it — while the person being helped watches.

Let's dive deeper.