[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

[Colin Law]

On 18 August 2011 11:25, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
> On 18 August 2011 11:05, Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> 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?

Colin