Comments on: An Introduction To Privacy-Friendly Services

By: Keriko

Keriko — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 08:36:44 +0000

Firefox is a pretty good solution. I use it together with the DNS solution by CloudFlare. My set is FireFox + DNS Cloudflare + LastPass

By: Reader

Reader — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:32:19 +0000

Mozilla have great addons and privacy policy, Duck&Go is good one but it isn’t popular one and that cause some loses, then yandx is not for me but well, they have pretty good translator

By: Courtney

Courtney — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:38:41 +0000

Mozzila is the most user friendly one and then duck and go alongside yandex works fine for me

By: web master

web master — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:20:10 +0000

In reply to kaladorn.

Crypto4a sounds interesting, I will check it out.

Amazon offering is not designed to be a syncing cloud storage service for personal use. Amazon Cloud Drive is their consumer product and doesn’t have client-side encryption.

In regards to trusting that Tresorit doesn’t have any backdoors — this is a common question about encrypted services. The answer is basically that ultimately you do have the trust the company to some extent. If trust that Tresorit doesn’t have any backdoors, then your data is safe they have no way to access to you data. Tresorit ha a reputation — their software is used by thousands of individuals and businesses. If they did anything questionable or risky they would be out of business. Here is an article were they address this issue to some extent: https://tresorit.com/blog/we-care-about-your-privacy-you-should-too/

For an added layer of security, you can encrypt your own files (with open-source software before). You would not have to trust a cloud storage provider in this case.

By: kaladorn

kaladorn — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:59:15 +0000

Tresorit features end to end encryption. What about Amazon’s storage offering? I thought it had end to end encryption as well.

A friend of mine is working for a company you might be interested in (hardware for crypto): https://www.crypto4a.com/
They are still a startup, but they have designs for chips which you deploy a CA on and if anyone opens them, X-rays them, tries to scan them in some other ways, will zeroize the contents. They are working on a universal cybersecurity platform.

Said friend uses Amazon for cloud storage but pointed out you can’t be sure if they are actually safely encrypting your data (and that’s not unique to Amazon, it’ll be true just about with any service) so you provide them with a well-encrypted blob to store and you dencrypt it locally once you get it back to your machine if you really want a higher grade of security. It’s nice that Amazon or Tresorit would encrypt your data, but you still have to consider the possibility they aren’t doing what they say (or aren’t doing it well) and the best security is thus encrypting your data before uploading yourself (with lots of entropy).

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By: web master

web master — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:36:46 +0000

In reply to eventteam. You are not paying that much to have Linux installed, you are paying for the machine itself.

By: eventteam

eventteam — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:30:44 +0000

the prices for ThinkPenguin notebooks are between 700-900 us dollars before tax and the desktops are 500 u.s dollars before tax. does that seem pricey just to be sure Linux is installed on your computer?

By: jasmine

jasmine — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:16:01 +0000

For me duck and go can surpass google in future. The quality of the results is at a really high level, and for that they care about privacy. I wonder how it will be in the future but for the time being they manage.

By: Espen

Espen — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:45:17 +0000

Do you have any good suggestion for storing the contacts on the android phone and on the mac?