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Re: [LUG] Dropbox etcetera

 

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 18:08:47 +0100
bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Good god man, I sometimes worry about you*: being all old school and
> generally sceptical of new technology is all well and good, but I
> suspect if I came around to your house I'd find a horse and carriage
> parked outside and a telegraph machine as your main communication
> device...
Not quite, but I must admit that the wife owns the car. I am just a
nemed driver.

> Literally every person on the list except you is using one or several
> of these new fangled gadgets every day.

Well, I have used Dropbox before and I have started to use is again.

They all do > exactly what they say on the tin: provide a convenient
cloud-based
> storage facility of a few gigs for free or a lot more for actual
> money.
 I don't need to pay for Dropbox. Not enough to store.

> It's important to know that all of these cloud based services, paid
> or free versions, come complete with GCHQ/NSA backdoors cooked in so
> the spooks can trawl warrant free through all your stuff. Other
> people may lie to you and say this isn't the case but trust me, your
> reliable paranoiac here is correct about this.
> 
Yes, I realise that so I encrypt some of the stuff first.

> There isn't really a lot of advice to be given here: just download and
> try them out, make your own mind up. Except for the amount of free
> storage provided and the ease of setting them up on Linux, there isn't
> any difference between them. If you really care about data security,
> you'd frankly be mad to use any of them: you can of course client-side
> PGP encrypt anything before you send it upstream (I do this) or even
> follow complex tutorials to mount dropbox via ecryptfs but it's all a
> waste of time as the bad guys can root your Linux box, phone, SOHO
> router and everything else you own at any point they feel like anyway.
> 
Yes, I also realise that, but at least I do try by encrypting some of
it.

> If backups are your hidden premise here, the best (and really only)
> solution is to find a friend or family member you actually trust, and
> both buy a 4Tb+ drive and stick it in a USB enclosure. Backup
> everything initially, and swap drives. If you're feeling fancy, buy
> some Raspberry Pis (this is what I did with the bunch I bought the
> other day) and install them at each end: hook up the USB backup
> drives and use SSH/rsync to automate continuous incremental backups
> in the dead of night when the internet is quiet. This method will
> even survive apocalyptic data destruction at the level of house
> fires/police raids. Encryption is optional but recommended, no matter
> how much you trust the person at the other end.
> 
And yes, I have heard that one too. Problem is I have no friends and
don't like most of my relations much

LOL

Neil


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