Are you familiar with LastPass? Everything you said, you can do with LastPass: "make it more convenient, access your files > from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share > your files"
Using secure encryption that occurs on the computer before it leaves for the cloud does not prevent any of the things you seem to think it does. > From: be...@ubuntu.com > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:09 -0300 > Subject: Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it > To: jtodd...@hotmail.com > CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jason Todd <jtodd...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I wanted to leave a note expressing my hopes that if Ubuntu One ever gets > > encryption capabilities, that the encryption be implemented in the same way > > that LASTPASS does it (http://lastpass.com). Which is that the data is all > > encrypted on the user's machine before it goes into the cloud, and the user > > is the only who has the key to decrypt the data. This kind of encryption > > setup would be safe & secure and would lead me to trust the Ubuntu One cloud > > services. > > ...but then you wouldn't be able to interact with your data beyond > your own computers. > Ubuntu One's focus is to make it more convenient, access your files > from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share > your files, and well, more to come in that direction. > You can either have "very secure" or "convenient", and there's > services catering to both. We believe that if you really want to keep > your data safe, than you can encrypt it yourself, so it'll get > uploaded encrypted (at the expense of it being inconvenient to decrypt > to use it). DejaDup does this for you by default in Ubuntu, and backs > up, safely and securely to Ubuntu One. > As for the general consumer, they are attracted towards cloud services > for the convenience (this is not an opinion, this is research). > Both things are real uses cases, but in many cases mutually exclusive. > > -- > Martin > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
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