If what I just did to the subject line was out of line, Craig, change it
back and I'll take the hint. But it strikes me an interesting discourse
on cloud security could be in the offing.
I am one who came to the cloud kicking and screaming. I was raised
to think my house was mine, and neither government nor larcenous
passerby had a right to enter uninvited.
A lot of things have changed. For at least two, probably more than
three, decades, our previously personal information and thoughts have
become increasingly public. The local grocery store now knows how much I
earn, what shift I probably work, what products I like to buy and how
often I buy them. I have a discount card that gets me the uninflated
price in return for my name, address and the above info. Every time I
use my ATM or credit card, more of me is stored, to be collated and sold.
If our information was stored only in one place, it wouldn't be so
bad, but every time we use our plastic money, we create another entry in
another database. Every store we shop in becomes another potential
gateway to the very information we're now worried we'll store in the
cloud with insufficient encryption to guarantee its security.
So I use Dropbox and Evernote, and don't give much more than
cursory thought to whether Quicken is telling Intuit, and thereafter
anyone who can hack their databases, all my expenses for the past
several years.
So, with the experience I've had the past several years using
Secret! - and I expect others would say the same of their favorite
digital safe - I'd be inclined to trust that syncing to the cloud would
likely be at least as secure as any retail outlet I've patronized.
Y'all's turn.
On 3/13/2010 10:00 AM, Don Ferguson wrote:
>
>
> Yep, there are some limited implementations. Evernote, for instance, DOES
> allow you to encrypt random bits of text (no whole-note encryption IIRC) but
> then one can't read the encrypted part on their (rather limited) application
> on the Pre. This will evolve, but I don't think we're quite there yet!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Don
>
> From: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>
> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
> Of John
> Messeder
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 7:59 AM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:treo%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Treo] SplashData
>
> Clearly something that needs asking. I did see for another app where its
> data was encrypted on the ground (PC or Pre) and the result stored.
> Evernote's paid service includes encrypted data, but I don't remember
> where the encryption happens.
> So it's certainly possible.
>
> On 3/13/2010 2:29 AM, Don Ferguson wrote:
> > The killer for me is verification that the information is encrypted when
> > stored on the cloud.
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
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