[colug-432] dropbox clone

Matthew Sibson colug at matthewsibson.com
Wed Aug 3 16:33:12 EDT 2011


On 7/29/11 10:53 AM, Seth Hall wrote:
> On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Scott Merrill wrote:
>
>> If you don't want to manage the server end, Dropbox remains a very
>> good product. If your data is sensitive, you should encrypt it
>> yourself before uploading it to Dropbox. TrueCrypt and GPG are good
>> solutions for this.
>
> Even better from a usability and security perspective might be:
> 	http://www.tarsnap.com/
>
> It's written and run by FreeBSD's security officer Colin Percival.
>
> Sorry for not making the meeting the other day.  This week has been rough on me.  I can do the Bro talk at some other meeting if people are up for it though. :)
>
>    .Seth
>
>

FLOSS weekly interviewed Colin this week covering a few topics including 
some discussion about Tarsnap and his work at FreeBSD. Podcast available 
here for those interested http://twit.tv/floss176

Matthew


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