Storing information very securely

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:02 AM, Jon J <ubuntu-users at mlist.ca> wrote:
> On 14-12-02 09:49 AM, drew einhorn wrote:
>
>> As far as I know Dropbox is the only cloud provider with decent Linux
>> support.
>
> ownCloud is worth a look as a Dropbox substitute. It has a good Linux client.
>
> Plus the server portion is open source and self-hosted so you don't
> have to trust someone else with your data. Plus it can encrypt the
> data transmission (so you don't have to trust your internet provider)
> and it can encrypt the files on the server (so you don't have to trust
> your hosting provider).
>
> Just note that the ownCloud server in the Ubuntu repo is very out of
> date - this was the subject of a little controversy a couple of weeks
> ago. Download direct from the ownCloud website instead.
>
> Jon

also note that the OwnCloud CLIENT is not available in any Ubuntu repo
-- the "official" client repository is at OpenSUSE.

I've had trouble getting my OwnCloud client to update lately because
of an authentication error with the repository and I haven't yet
tracked down the cause. I just Googled for the exact URL when
composing this message, and got a "down for maintenance" error from
the server.