Michael Watterson wrote:

> On 01/06/2011 16:09, RussellMc wrote:
>> Question:  Getting Dropbox for free (2 GB version) seems too good to
>> be true - is it? Are there any known issues re privacy, security,
>> affect on systems etc.?
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> With the low annual cost of your own domain and hosting do any of
> these Privacy & Security failing Public Services make sense?

Depends on your "hosting". For most (in this price range) this means
shared hosting... which is as "public" if not more as something like
Dropbox.=20

Of course you can encrypt anything you put there before you put it
there, but that's then not any different from Dropbox.


> I can create a directory on my hosting and password protect it to
> individuals or a group.=20

This doesn't help much against someone having root access to the system.
This includes probably at least a few admins of your hosting company,
and who knows how diligent they are with these passwords. (Working from
home, and all that...) I wouldn't recommend shared hosting as storage
for anything sensitive.

> With a little more effort make the connection encrypted too (for
> people at public WiFi, which is seriously unprivate).=20

And neither does this.

Gerhard
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