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Are you familiar with LastPass? <br><br>Everything you said, you can do with LastPass: "make it more convenient, access your files<br>> from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share<br>> your files"<br><br>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.<br><br><br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: beuno@ubuntu.com<br>> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:09 -0300<br>> Subject: Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it<br>> To: jtodd929@hotmail.com<br>> CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> <br>> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jason Todd <jtodd929@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>> > I wanted to leave a note expressing my hopes that if Ubuntu One ever gets<br>> > encryption capabilities, that the encryption be implemented in the same way<br>> > that LASTPASS does it (http://lastpass.com). Which is that the data is all<br>> > encrypted on the user's machine before it goes into the cloud, and the user<br>> > is the only who has the key to decrypt the data. This kind of encryption<br>> > setup would be safe & secure and would lead me to trust the Ubuntu One cloud<br>> > services.<br>> <br>> ...but then you wouldn't be able to interact with your data beyond<br>> your own computers.<br>> Ubuntu One's focus is to make it more convenient, access your files<br>> from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share<br>> your files, and well, more to come in that direction.<br>> You can either have "very secure" or "convenient", and there's<br>> services catering to both. We believe that if you really want to keep<br>> your data safe, than you can encrypt it yourself, so it'll get<br>> uploaded encrypted (at the expense of it being inconvenient to decrypt<br>> to use it). DejaDup does this for you by default in Ubuntu, and backs<br>> up, safely and securely to Ubuntu One.<br>> As for the general consumer, they are attracted towards cloud services<br>> for the convenience (this is not an opinion, this is research).<br>> Both things are real uses cases, but in many cases mutually exclusive.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Martin<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list<br>> Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com<br>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss<br></div> </div></body>
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