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Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for 4 Hours Sunday
J-Mac:
Renegade,
For sensitive or critical data I agree completely. But for the non-sensitive, non-critical stuff, it's a nice way for someone without their own server to store loads of that data. I don’t keep any financial or private data online; just the stuff I have gathered over many years, information that I don’t really care if anyone else sees, that would take way too many external drives. Still I don’t like to think that it is all just publicly available if I am paying for the storage.
Jim
Renegade:
Renegade,
For sensitive or critical data I agree completely. But for the non-sensitive, non-critical stuff, it's a nice way for someone without their own server to store loads of that data. I don’t keep any financial or private data online; just the stuff I have gathered over many years, information that I don’t really care if anyone else sees, that would take way too many external drives. Still I don’t like to think that it is all just publicly available if I am paying for the storage.
Jim
-J-Mac (June 21, 2011, 09:24 PM)
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Can't disagree with that. :)
Renegade:
In a related way:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/hacks_wipe_aus_web_and_data/
Thousands of Australian websites have irretrievably lost their data and email files following a malicious security hack on Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT.
The company has been scrambling to save data and get customers back online or moved to safe servers since the security breach occurred over a week ago, but has largely failed to recover data from the affected server’s shared servers.
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http://www.distributeit.com.au/
Our Data Recovery teams have been working around the clock in an attempt to recover data from the affected servers shared Servers. At this time, We regret to inform that the data, sites and emails that were hosted on Drought, Hurricane, Blizzard and Cyclone can be considered by all the experts to be unrecoverable.
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Ouch...
This is really getting out of hand. The number of high-profile hacks going on is just through the roof.
An interesting thing to ponder... I've not heard any reports about the stack these sites are on... Microsoft? LAMP? Solaris?
J-Mac:
LulzSec claims to be reporting all their major hacks so publicly to force companies to get real regarding their online security measures. Might be true, might be bull; either way they sure are bringing a lot of heat to the subject.
Jim
justice:
What's the very easiest way to encrypt certain folders on dropbox? Something that is more userfriendly then having to unmount a truecrypt volume in order for it to be synced. On Mac OS X you can also create an encrypted Disk Image (.dmg) using Disk Utility (normally found in /Applications/Utilities).
What about us windows users?
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