![]() If they are really trustworthy, then one clue about that is that they will make sure that you believe that you can trust them. I think this is a bit of paranoia in a world that really doesn’t care much about the individual…they care about the big businesses and will go after them.įor something as important as encryption, you need to be able to trust the people doing the encryption. And if criminals are really serious, they do worse things. And if I am mistaken, and you are, then it is much easier to break into a business and steal the computer hardware than try to hack online accounts. But sorry Fred…you just don’t have enough money, influence or affect enough of the world economy to be worth hacking. If you are a large multinational corp with billions of dollars in transfer, ok. The question is, do you have anything valuable enough for someone to put the costly resources and time into it? On top of that, if there is any information SO important that you need to double encrypt it, you would be a complete fool to put it online anyway. Realistically, anyone who can hack a Skydrive account will be able to decrypt a Boxcryptor cypher. The encrypted files cannot be opened by Office 365 online apps, cannot be downloaded and used by other people unless they know your encryption password, thereby defeating the purpose of encrypting in the first place. Sorry, but this defeats the major purpose for cloud based storage, especially Skydrive and Google Drive…to use cloud based office apps to work collaboratively with others. I’m always wary of that – too many cooks can spoil the soup. Not only do I see a lot of caveats in the instructions dealing with Windows itself – certificate conflicts, etc – but BoxCryptor also requires smooth interoperability with a third party’s software – SkyDrive, DropBox, etc. ![]() ![]() I have a DropBox folder for my ‘casual’ data – cat gifs, essential tools and drivers, etc – and a SpiderOak folder for my ‘serious’ data – banking, taxes, legal etc. The advantage of SpiderOak is that it’s one simple piece of software, like DropBox. Only you can read it, using your key that you control. SpiderOak is one of the few that encrypts your data before it leaves your computer – so that what they receive at their end, and store on their servers, is gibberish. Obviously they have procedures and policies in place, but should those policies and procedures fail or be circumvented by an employee, you’re exposed. BoxCryptor look interesting – will definitely look into it.īut a much simpler solution would be to use a ‘zero-knowledge’ cloud-based storage provider – such as SpiderOak.ĭropbox and SkyDrive et all encrypt the tunnel by which your data is uploaded to them, but once it gets out of the pipe at their end, it is clear to read. ![]()
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