<OT> clouds

[Eric Morey]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 23:32 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> I know this is slightly OT, but what is the experience using the Ubuntu
> flavor of "the cloud" or just the "cloud" in general? I'm skeptical as
> all heck. One of of Non-Profit team members wants to put our financial
> data "out there" in google. Me, I'm going oh hell no! Are any of them
> particularly safe? 

Jungle Disk seems to be security conscious. From their site, "Jungle
Disk encrypts user data with AES-256 encryption. ... The master key is
based on a password YOU choose, known only to you and not stored with
Jungle Disk."
https://www.jungledisk.com/security_practices/default.aspx

You can apparently choose between Rackspace Cloud or Amazon S3 to host
your files using Jungle Disk's service. I suppose you could also use
something like Truecrypt to encrypt information you store on offsite
hosted servers of your choice. I would be sure to maintain local backups
no mater what I chose.


> The ultimate goal is to have being able to collaborate on the books,
> live, at different locations connected to the net.

There are a number of accounting software options that allow users to
access the software via any web browser. See the table at the bottom of:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Accounting_software