Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread Stephen
iser. > > -mb > > > > On 04/09/2012 08:37 PM, keith smith wrote: >> >> >> Thank you to everyone who replied. Worse than I thought. >> >> >> Keith Smith >> >> --- On *Mon, 4/9/12, Stephen //* wrote: >> >>

Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread Michael Butash
b On 04/09/2012 08:37 PM, keith smith wrote: Thank you to everyone who replied. Worse than I thought. Keith Smith --- On *Mon, 4/9/12, Stephen //* wrote: From: Stephen Subject: Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure? To: "Main PLUG discussion list"

Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread keith smith
Thank you to everyone who replied.  Worse than I thought. Keith Smith --- On Mon, 4/9/12, Stephen wrote: From: Stephen Subject: Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure? To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 1:43 PM you have 2 options,

Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread Stephen
you have 2 options, encrypt it before you share it. use pgp for example. or not to use it. To be fair it is a 3rd party company and it is their business to be trustworthy. but it really depends on how trusting you are of a 3rd party company. On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:38 PM, keith smith wrote: >

Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread Mike Bydalek
Safest bet is to assume the world can read it. I would encrypt the data as that way the transport doesn't matter as much. I wouldn't send any confidential information in plain text unless I was 100% the end to end connection was secure. Is DropBox itself secure? I would say about as secure as Gm

Re: OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread Kevin Fries
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:38 -0700, keith smith wrote: > > Hi, > > Someone wants me to share some confidential information by uploading > documents to his Drop Box account. My gut tells me this is not a > secure was to transfer confidential information. > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks in advance

OT: Drop Box - is it secure?

2012-04-09 Thread keith smith
Hi, Someone wants me to share some confidential information by uploading documents to his Drop Box account.  My gut tells me this is not a secure was to transfer confidential information. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!  Keith Smith