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SpiderOak Woes



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Gordon Marx wrote:
>>
>> Pardon my "ignorance", but what is a "master encryption key" going to
>> do? I upload an encrypted file to them, I keep the key to myself,
>> there's no way they can use anything to break it.

<snip unrelated stuff>

> None of which matters if you use some other encryption mechanism before uploading files to the storage provider.

Uh huh. So what you're saying is, doing it wrong will screw you over.

In other news, if you give someone else a key to your house, they can get in.





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