I love my pogoplug with a USB hard disk and/or FOB.
Sharing is a snap, you can encrypt some of it with a Truecrypt volume
if you need to, etc.
If you would like to mess around with some space on mine send me an e-
mail off list and I can grant you access and let you upload/download
some files to it.
For a pogoplug competitor check out the tonido plug. But I really like
this type of device, and the amount of storage is limitless, you can
even plug in a USB hub and have multiple devices shared out on it.
(This is what I do personally).
From a security perspective I am not sure how the data transfer
itself works, but your pogoplug URL is dependent on the pogoplug
servers. You can install Openpogo to it, and SSH to it and do all of
sorts of stuff with it. Definitely worth a look if you hadn't thought
of going in this direction previously.
On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Sean O'Connor wrote:
I concur with what Mike and Mike have said. If you really need
something to be secure you're going to have a pretty hard time using
a third party service. That being said if all you really need is
restricted access and encryption while going over the wire (i.e.
keep idle attempts out not protect against a very good directed
attack or subpoena), Dropbox and Jungle Disk both work very well.
If you do end up needing the security of your own server, I'd
recommend either SFTP or WebDav over HTTPS. Both a relatively easy
to setup and you can find good guides out there for any modern linux
distro. You probably should also consider some form of encryption
for the data on the server's disk such as Truecrypt.
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Michael Chase-Salerno <[email protected]
> wrote:
Orion Vianna wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for services that allows people to collaborate by
sharing/uploading/downloading files online securely.
I could setup SFTP in a server somewhere but I prefer to pay for
something that won't require monitoring and maintenance on my part.
It also needs to be easy to use for non-techies + built in backups &
user file access controls would be nice (some type of admin interface)
Those are the two services that I have found interesting so far.
https://www.getdropbox.com/
http://www.jungledisk.com/workgroup/index.aspx
Have anyone used dropbox?
Thanks!
Orion
I have been using Dropbox for a while now. It works quite well and
you even get history of file versions. I haven't done any multi-
writer sharing, so not sure how that works, but the public read
access works fine and the integration with Nautilus is clean.
As Mike said, the security is questionable, but depending on your
requirements, may be adequate.
Also Ubuntu One is free with 2G and similar to Dropbox: https://one.ubuntu.com/
Mike
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