[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

[Juan J. Martínez]

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