From 9503d9a23253168692d1bf9bbb297499dcac2208 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnZEanlyzay_QlEAL0CWpyZcRTyN7vay8U" Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:02:16 +0000 Subject: --- doc/tips/Decentralized_repository_behind_a_Firewall.mdwn | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/tips') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3