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author | https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnZEanlyzay_QlEAL0CWpyZcRTyN7vay8U <Carlo@web> | 2012-11-30 15:02:16 +0000 |
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committer | admin <admin@branchable.com> | 2012-11-30 15:02:16 +0000 |
commit | 9503d9a23253168692d1bf9bbb297499dcac2208 (patch) | |
tree | 83f29102636bbd2c2eaf8bc3ae089d54e6098a9c /doc/tips | |
parent | 50fb448c850e7391b95def644fdd754c0d5fc461 (diff) |
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diff --git a/doc/tips/Decentralized_repository_behind_a_Firewall.mdwn b/doc/tips/Decentralized_repository_behind_a_Firewall.mdwn index 5b066c22d..9fea58527 100644 --- a/doc/tips/Decentralized_repository_behind_a_Firewall.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/Decentralized_repository_behind_a_Firewall.mdwn @@ -46,9 +46,10 @@ In any case, the setup is much, much, much more secure than Dropbox. With Dropbo * Your data is stored in some datacenter. It's supposed to be encrypted. It might not be. * Lot's of people have routine access to your files, and plausible reason to. Bored employees might regularly be doing some 'maintenance work' involving your pictures. -* The dropbox software can do anything it likes on your computer, and it's closed source and can't be audited -* Any dropbox employee can conveiably use your installed dropbox to look at any file on your computer +* The dropbox software can do anything it likes on your computer, and it's closed source so you don't know if it does. A disgruntled employee could put a trojan into it. +* Dropbox might have a backdoor for employee access to any file on your computer. This might be done with the best of intentions, but a mal-intentioned or careless employee might still erase things or send sensitive files from your computer by email. * A truly huge amount of eyes connected to incredibly smart brains have looked at openssh and found it secure. Everybody trusts openssh. With dropbox, there is, well, dropbox. Whoever that is. + ----- ยน Me=Carlo, not Joey. I'm pretty sure doing what I wrote here is a good idea, but in case it turns out to be catastrophically dumb, it's my fault, not his. |