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Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil

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Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> writes:

> On 04-26-2012 10:41, Bread wrote:
>> Wuala -- which, unlike the rest of them, does not have the ability to
>> access or read your files because they don't have your encryption key.
>
> They're _probably_ on the level, but is their app open source?
> Or has anyone verified with non-Wuala code that the encryption
> actually does depend on the key you supposedly don't give them?
>
> If you use that key with their app to decrypt your files, it's
> possible for the app to send them the key.
>
> i doubt that would happen, but it's possible.

Even verified open source isn't necessarily secure:

    http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html

Best to encrypt it locally, using a tool chain you wrote from scratch :-)

-- 
Jim Janney

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Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-25 12:18 -0400
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-25 13:09 -0400
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-04-25 13:44 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-25 13:59 -0700
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-25 23:03 +0200
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-26 11:29 +0200
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2012-04-26 07:41 -0700
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:21 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2012-04-27 13:27 -0600
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 12:15 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-26 09:35 -0700
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 14:45 -0400
          Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 17:43 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-05-17 16:40 +0200
  Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2012-04-26 08:25 -0500
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 10:03 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-26 19:25 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 22:31 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-26 11:56 -0400
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-26 12:14 -0400
    Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-27 14:40 +0200
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2012-04-27 10:46 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-27 11:25 -0400
        Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-27 17:51 +0200
          Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2012-04-27 15:59 -0700
            Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-04-27 18:58 -0700
              Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-04-28 10:03 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-04-28 12:06 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-04-28 13:33 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-30 10:47 -0400
              Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-28 12:32 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-28 22:46 +0200
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-04-30 10:35 -0400
                Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-05-01 09:37 +0200
            Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-04-28 12:53 +0200
      Re: Google Drive--Even More Evil "Wayne C. Morris" <wayne.morris@this.is.invalid> - 2012-04-27 10:14 -0500

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