Anything you put in the cloud should be seen as giving it to the public... If you want it there and need it private it should be encrypted. PGP has been around for years...
When I was in college I was reasonably sure (and in retrospect correct) that the school was reading my email. So my friends and I used PGP (pretty good privacy) to encrypt everything. If you've never used it PGP takes your text and scrambles it up with (as I remember) 128bit encryption. So it takes an email like "Are you ready for dinner?" and turns it into a full page of garbled text with a PGP header. Turns out (this was later confirmed by a school administrator) this was driving the school security people bonkers. Good fun. -Curt ________________________________ From: archer75--- via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> To: On behalf of Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Anyone for Dropbox? On 7/18/2014 3:33 AM, arche...@embarqmail.com wrote: > > "Snip...........Snowden said he spends a lot of time working on > privacy software in his Russian bolt hole, and avoids services like > Google and Skype when doing so. Any unencrypted traffic was fair game > for surveillance, he said, adding that Western technology companies > were doing a good job of encrypting as much stuff as possible. > > > Spideroak v Dropbox > > He highlighted cloud storage provider Spideroak as a case in point. > The firm stores data for backups, but in an encrypted format that only > the customer holds, so that it cannot be forced to hand over > encryption keys should government investigators come calling. > > Snowden was scathing about Spideroak rival Dropbox, calling it a > "PRISM wannabe." He noted that the firm has just appointed former US > Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to its board, who Snowden > described as "the most anti-privacy official you can imagine.".......snip > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/17/snowden_says_analysts_swapping_sexts_at_nsa_seen_as_a_fringe_benefit/ > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
