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Box Privacy Policy

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I am no lawyer, but can someone who has a better understanding of the law give me some insight in layman's terms. This sounded so shady to me when I first read it:

https://app.box.com/legal_text/privacy_policy

I was going to store my documents, software license keys, software installation files, pics, etc. on my Box account which is empty at the moment.

They gave me 50 GB free but I am not so sure I wanna use it
 
isn't that too much of a hassle? what happens when you format? how would you de-crypt your data?

and what software do you recommend meh for encryption?
 
Well it's a tradeoff.. it does take more time if you want to encrypt files. If you use something like truecrypt and make a container, then unencrypting it depends on your password chosen or keyfile. So if you reformat your computer, you won't lose the data. I think truecrypt is probably still ok to use.

AFAIK Windows can only encrypt drives or USB drives so you can't really use their system to upload encrypted stuff to a cloud service.

There may be others you can use too but i'm not too familiar.. maybe someone else knows?
 
There is a basic rule of the internet - never put anything on it you wouldn't want public knowledge. Every internet service out there in the world today has basically been hacked at least once, the password lists are cheap as chips it happens so often. Regardless of the actual policy of a company you should assume anything you store on the internet is public knowledge or will become so soon enough. If you encrypt it then it might stay a secret for 10-20 years if you are lucky, but its still going to get stolen and cracked eventually. Base your security on that understanding and you wont get blindsided when it happens.
 
BrightCandle said:
There is a basic rule of the internet - never put anything on it you wouldn't want public knowledge. Every internet service out there in the world today has basically been hacked at least once, the password lists are cheap as chips it happens so often. Regardless of the actual policy of a company you should assume anything you store on the internet is public knowledge or will become so soon enough. If you encrypt it then it might stay a secret for 10-20 years if you are lucky, but its still going to get stolen and cracked eventually. Base your security on that understanding and you wont get blindsided when it happens.
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I see, then I won't upload any pics or sensitive docs on that Box thing
 
If you're concerned about privacy use SpiderOak. A word of warning, don't forget your password because there is absolutely no way to recover your data.
 
Yes, since spideroak does not have any of your keys, they cannot access any of your files even if they wanted to. Then again you would lose all of your data if you lost your password somehow so you definitely should have a few secure places to back it up.
 
Chiefcrowe said:
Yes, since spideroak does not have any of your keys, they cannot access any of your files even if they wanted to. Then again you would lose all of your data if you lost your password somehow so you definitely should have a few secure places to back it up.
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And at some point that encrypted volume will be easily hackable, its simply a matte of time before the computing resources to open it up and see its contents is created. Don't get me wrong, encryption is a decent solution but its only going to defend that data for 10-20 years, maybe a lot less. At some point the encryption just becomes a minor hurdle rather than an impossible activity due to the growth of computing power available. Its a partial solution.
 
Great point and I agree with this.

Also, Winrar can encrypt as well but I have a feeling that 7-zip uses better algorithms so I would probably pick that one.




BrightCandle said:
And at some point that encrypted volume will be easily hackable, its simply a matte of time before the computing resources to open it up and see its contents is created. Don't get me wrong, encryption is a decent solution but its only going to defend that data for 10-20 years, maybe a lot less. At some point the encryption just becomes a minor hurdle rather than an impossible activity due to the growth of computing power available. Its a partial solution.
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Cloud storage for ~50GB seems silly to me considering you can buy flash memory (CF/SDXC/thumb) in 64GB for well under $100. I'd imagine the up/down loads would be pretty fast, too, in comparison.
 
Interesting idea... how would you set it up so that there is no down time [some kind of redundancy setup] and you have super fast access to your data from anywhere online?
Also how would you secure it both physically and otherwise?

BarkingGhostar said:
Cloud storage for ~50GB seems silly to me considering you can buy flash memory (CF/SDXC/thumb) in 64GB for well under $100. I'd imagine the up/down loads would be pretty fast, too, in comparison.
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