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Lots of free cloud space

Postby viking60 » 23 Mar 2014, 16:58

ImageI am always telling everybody to stay away from "clouds".
Because it is trusting someone running a server somewhere - probably instructed by the NSA to reveal everything about you in the name of "national security".
So even if the ISP has the best of intentions he might be forced to sell you out.


So if you do it; then only publish safe stuff (don't even give your real name) and pick one of those ISP's that have good intentions.
Here is one of them:
:A
http://www.ozibox.com/
100 G of free space there good for open source stuff that everyone is invited to have a look at - even the NSA :mrgreen: So if you are careful and aware I guess this would be an option.

The downside here seems to be that if you want to share something; you have to provide the email of the recipient who also has to be registered -so they are kind of harvesting emails.

But as a service where you upload files and download the to different boxes it works just fine.
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Re: Lots of free cloud space

Postby Snorkasaurus » 25 Mar 2014, 00:27

Hey v60... what do you think of the idea of using PGP, GPG, TrueCrypt, etc. to encrypt data and then using a cloud service as a backup location?

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Re: Lots of free cloud space

Postby viking60 » 25 Mar 2014, 21:39

Yes that is an option:
viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1955#p12102

I guess it is pretty safe to do it, depending on the encryption..
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