Dropbox CTO on their security policy
Arash Ferdowsi, CTO of Dropbox, wrote to me to clarify Dropbox's present and historical privacy policy: first, I'd like to clarify what our intent was in how we represented privacy in our TOS. in our...
View ArticleGrendel: free/open source software for protecting your cloud data
Marc Hedlund sez, "Wesabe just open sourced a project called Grendel that makes it easy for web apps to encrypt data using the user's login password, and only decrypt that data when the user is logged...
View ArticleGoogle gets into the YouSendIt business: send 250MB attachments with Google Docs
Google is getting into the YouSendIt business: the free Google Docs now supports file-hosting of up to 250MB, along with access-restrictions based on Google accounts (just like other Google Docs). I'm...
View ArticleTim O'Reilly explains the Cloud
Here's Tim O'Reilly on the future of Cloud computing and the "Internet of Things," speaking at the MySQL CE 2010 conference." As Bruce Sterling sez, "It looks like he's just telling disconnected...
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WPA Cracker cracks WiFi passwords in the cloud
WPA Cracker is a WiFi security compromiser in the cloud, running on a high-performance cluster. Send them a dump of captured network traffic and $35, and they will try 136 million passwords in 40...
View ArticleDropbox's new security policy implies that they lied about privacy from the...
Miguel de Icaza noticed that Dropbox's new security terms of service allows it to decrypt your stored files for law enforcement; but Dropbox has always claimed that it did not store the keys necessary...
View ArticleDropbox CTO on their security policy
Arash Ferdowsi, CTO of Dropbox, wrote to me to clarify Dropbox's present and historical privacy policy: first, I'd like to clarify what our intent was in how we represented privacy in our TOS. in our...
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