[wplug] Yahoo briefcase simliar service?

[Jonathan Billings]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:12:21PM -0800, Sam Al-Droubi wrote:
> A number of you suggested dropbox http://www.dropbox.com.  Thank you
> for the pointer.  I started using it and I really like it so far. 
> Regarding security, would you store any of your confidential data
> such as medical or finacial files on it?  Is it easy to break into
> your dropbox account and do the folks that work at dropbox have
> access to view the data or is it encrypted somehow? 

I wouldn't trust DropBox for security.  I've seen several people set
up EncFS with DropBox to automatically back up the secure archive,
that way if DropBox is broken into, all they'll have is an encrypted
file. 


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>