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Dropbox security
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Thanks for the info.
Good thing I only keep college work on there. |
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Using COTS cloud services, especially free services, to store sensitive proprietary information for a company has been a known no-no in the IT industry since the word "cloud" was even coined. For anything sensitive, the best philosophy isn't centered around if something gets hacked, but rather a matter of when it will become hacked (hi Sony!). Sure, we lose agility by the inability to automatically sync files, or have files available anywhere -- but the tradeoff is well worth it for trade secrets. For the really paranoid, there's also the good-ol' trusty IronKey USB sticks. 4GB of 256-bit AES on a key chain FTW. |
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Because if they can un-encrypt your data, they can "deduplicate" files and use delta storage for large files, which takes less storage. He mentioned that in the article.
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Please note: I am neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the above, simply explaining what I think he meant. |
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TANSTAAFL indeed. |
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Is there something exactly like dropbox but where you run the server on your own machine somewhere?
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If you want to run an Apache server on your own machine you could certainly store files there and completely control access to them. I know that's not "like Dropbox", but it would give you access to your files from any internet-connected device. Last edited by Ether : 02-06-2011 at 14:23. |
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Last edited by Alan Anderson : 02-06-2011 at 16:47. Reason: more better URL |
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http://www.funambol.com/ I use Subversion, but it is not "exactly like dropbox" but it is a great way to keep files in sync across many computers. http://subversion.apache.org/ -Hugh |
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1745 Still uses Dropbox for its stuff but all of our financials are now in a Truecrypt container.
I found the whole thing stinks. the way they presented it to people is that they encrypted/decrypted it locally then only stored the hash ( without the password) like lastpass. but really the only thing keeping your files safe is a company policy (and disgruntled/blackmailed/hacked employees always follow policy) as far as alts ( if you dont want to pre encrypt ) Steve Gibson ( from Security Now / Grc.com) uses Jungle disk for all his stuff and if its good enough for Steve it should be good enough for us. |
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