DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To

2011-04-19 Thread Richard Hartmann
Just a FYI in case anyone is still considering to base their data storage on an external, non-encrypted, third-party services. http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-updates-security-terms-of-service-to-say-it-can-decrpyt-files-if-the-government-asks-it-to-2011-4?op=1 In related news, git-annex s

Re: DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To

2011-04-19 Thread Tommy Stanton
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Just a FYI in case anyone is still considering to base their data > storage on an external, non-encrypted, third-party services. > > http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-updates-security-terms-of-service-to-say-it-can-decrpyt-files-if-th

Re: DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To

2011-04-19 Thread Pieter Praet
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:37:53 +0200, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Just a FYI in case anyone is still considering to base their data > storage on an external, non-encrypted, third-party services. > > http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-updates-security-terms-of-service-to-say-it-can-decrpyt-files-

Re: DROPBOX: We'll Turn Your Files Over To The Government If They Ask Us To

2011-04-19 Thread Tommy Stanton
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Pieter Praet wrote: > As often (but not always) is the case, RMS knows wazup [1]. > > [1] > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman Excellent article that illustrates the point; thanks! Stallman is right on. I really en

[git-annex] reflink=auto option not present

2011-04-19 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Hi, I have been using git-annex for some time, and today while trying to issue `git annex get` it shows: get big_file (copying from host...) cp: unrecognized option '--reflink=auto' Try `cp --help' for more information. The command was issued in a file server which has Ubuntu lucid installed and

Re: [git-annex] reflink=auto option not present

2011-04-19 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using git-annex for some time, and today while trying to > issue `git annex get` it shows: > get big_file (copying from host...) cp: unrecognized option '--reflink=auto' > Try `cp --help' for more information. > For reference, I am using git-annex 0.

[git-annex] compile error on lucid (was: reflink=auto option not present)

2011-04-19 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > Hi, > > I have been using git-annex for some time, and today while trying to > issue `git annex get` it shows: > get big_file (copying from host...) cp: unrecognized option '--reflink=auto' > Try `cp --help' for more information. > OK, it seems that git-annex checks for