Nothing is 100%. But cloud computing will get closer than you'll ever get to serious backup management. Millions of Dollars put into data centers with all sorts of redundecies... Expecially when you think of Data storage techniques. RAID 5, NASs, ...
I'm not to sure I follow. U want to packet sniff VPN traffic from outside the VPN to check the encryption? Or see the VPN packets to make sure that cleartxt authitation services and programs like you mentioned are really ...
Ok... my best guess is you didn't do anything the website did. If you are login into a bank website or some othe important location the main page is generally served up using HTTPS as you can see in the ...