On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 09:31 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote: > On 19 August 2011 08:33, Colin Law <clanlaw@> wrote: > > On 18 August 2011 11:25, Alan Pope <alan@> wrote: > >> On 18 August 2011 11:05, Tony Pursell <ajp@> wrote: > >>> Yes, it's to celebrate having 1 million U1 users. Hope they have 5 > >>> millions > >>> GBs somewhere, just in case :-) > >> Heh. I expect they do the same kind of file de-duplication that other > >> similar services (e.g. dropbox) do. So if you and I both store the > >> same PDF they only hold one copy on the backend until everyone deletes > >> every copy of it. > > If I put files on ubuntu one are they not encrypted? If they are > > encrypted then they cannot be combined with copies of the same file > > that others have uploaded. Or am I missing something? > They are not encrypted.
Actually, Ubuntu One stores the files on Amazon S3. Nobody prevent YOU encrypt your files before uploading them to UO though. Regards, Juan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
