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digitalderbs writes:
"A perennial problem facing computer users is how to keep documents, pictures, music and other personal files synchronized between computers. Robust uni-directional solutions, like rsync, and bi-directional solutions, like unison, have existed for a long time. However, these tools require some degree of manual intervention on a periodic basis. Simplified tools like Dropbox and bittorrent sync have emerged as popular, useful and automated alternatives, but these rely on closed-source software, which could be subject to backdooring. Open source solutions, like OwnCloud, are gaining traction, but are these open source platform robust and easy enough to maintain for routine and daily use? Moreover, distributed and encrypted file systems, like Ceph, are increasingly easy to use, but many of these do not work between Linux and OS X or Windows operating systems. What are your experiences and thoughts?"
(Score: 2, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:37AM
client side encryption, twice. I always use ROT 26 the first time, just to throw the bastards off. And then I change all the extensions, like .vxl to .xvl.
And finally, I make sure that I have nothing worth decrypting, so if the Basterds succeed, they are left with my grocery list circa 1998. I recommend Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum", to any seeking the meaning of the obscure encryption reference. Or Cryptonomicon, but Neal is not nearly so good a writer.