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On 25/04/13 13:04, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:24:04 +0100 > bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello bad, > >> This is the only thing you said that I disagree with I think, and that's >> because it's factually incorrect. Did you mean something else entirely? >> I'm referring of course to your "use of heavy crypto is no guarantee of >> security either" but I'm not going to labour the point because I'm > Yes, I see that that statement can be read in two ways. It didn't occur > to me at the time. > > The data itself may well be unreadable without the relevant > cryptographic key, but that very fact makes its existence on a company's > servers a potential risk to the company. Companies get nervous if they > think there's a risk to them. As a result, they may delete your > encrypted file(s). > > In that second sense, your files are not secure: That is, you upload > them, but when you go to retrieve them, they're not there. > Now that makes perfect sense, thanks for the clarification: I was sure that you meant something other than the initial reading. Do many people do that do you think? I mean, upload their one and only copy of file(s) to Dropbox or what have you, and then delete their originals from local storage? To me that would seem rather, umm, silly, but then again, your average computer user does tend to do a lot of things that really make me scratch my head in amazement so to answer my own question I suppose, yes, some of them do. Yikes. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq