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An app, when you use public cloud service,it could encrypt your data, will you be interested to try it anyway?

Asked by jackeydong (21points) September 16th, 2014

Hey guys: When, if there is such an application (iOS, Android), you use something like dropbox, box, GD and other public cloud services, it can help you to encrypt any file, such as: personal documents, photo albums, video (perhaps very intimate); prevent your data being stolen (I think you probably do not want to let hackers broadcast your privacy), will you be interested to try it anyway?

Also, if you use a similar service, please tell me, I have to try!

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elbanditoroso's avatar

Assuming that this isn’t spam…

No. Cloud encryption isn’t trustworthy. you don’t know their algorithm, and if the service can encode it, they can decode it as well.

The only way to use encryption in the cloud is if I encode it myself. And even then it is questionable.

In addition, the cloud is inherently unsafe and can be siezed by law enforcement. (See: Megaupload case in New Zealand).

I would never trust anything personally important to the cloud.

LuckyGuy's avatar

I, too, would never use such a service. It is like giving the fox the keys to the hen house. If they can encrypt it they can decrpyt
They will also, no doubt, store our passwords for us “as a service” in case we lose them.

Do not put anything on the cloud you want public unless you look like Jennifer Lawrence ~.

jackeydong's avatar

@elbanditoroso thanks for viewpoint, and this topic isn’t spam, I just wanna know why people value their privacy, but do not take action to protect it. why somebody just in arms and let it go, or feel the things which happened on Jennifer Lawrence will not on themselves?

jackeydong's avatar

@LuckyGuy But think about the APP like 1password, I think if you konw it maybe feel crazy, it not only manage your password but also your credit-card keys, why so many people don’t worry about what you think, and keep love it? (ps:android Installs 100,000 – 500,000)

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