Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Wed Apr 25 04:00:50 CDT 2012
Hi Hans Exactly. That's why we use - and recommend - Jungle Disk as, say, second or third level backup. It costs us about USD 6 per month for 50 GB storage which we consider a very cheap insurance should first or second level backup fail. /gustav >>> hans.andersen at phulse.com 25-04-2012 10:15 >>> There are serious downsides to encrypting your data manually and storing it in the cloud. You are always most welcome to do that, if you don't mind the hassle and the downsides, but my personal recommendation is do not use services like DropBox, SkyDrive and Google Drive at all if the files you are storing is personal in any way and pick an alternative that encrypts your data for you on the client side with your own personal encryption key. For instance: https://spideroak.com/ or https://www.jungledisk.com/ In my opinion, privacy should be the default and not a inconvenient option. It's trivial for them to do it, so one has to wonder why it isn't that way. Hans On 2012-04-25, at 12:12 AM, Gustav Brock wrote: > Hi Hans > > If that is your concern, you should encrypt everything. That counts for any information containing privacy or confidential data, no matter at which cloud location, as soon as you feel you are not in control of that location. > > There has been a heated discussion here if public authorities could allow non-anonymous data to be stored in the cloud. It goes without saying that you can't get any absolute control of where, say, Google store your data regardless of what the hosting provider may tell you. It always ends up in trust in the hosting provider, which is legally useless; thus, the only method to keep such data private is to encrypt them. Doing so, however, they can be stored just about anywhere. > > Any responsible corporation should have the same considerations. > > /gustav > > >>>> hans.andersen at phulse.com 25-04-2012 08:04 >>> > > So now Google now has the ability read all my emails, know all my friends and family, know which sites I browse, track everything I search for, and, like DropBox, look inside all my personal files. This is exactly what I've been waiting for. > > Hans > > > > On 2012-04-24, at 5:38 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> I just got my notice and downloaded and installed Google Drive. 5 gigs for >> free, and modest fee for lots more. It looks totally transparent. I think >> it's going to shake up the market for cloud storage. DropBox has some >> rethinking to do. >> >> -- >> Arthur >> Cell: 647.710.1314 >> >> Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. >> -- Niels Bohr