Snowdon: the network disk Dropbox not trustworthy-Dropbox, network backup, cloud, cloud storage, cloud services-IT information Snowdon: the network disk Dropbox not trustworthy
Beijing time on July 18 morning news, United States "Prism" Leaker aidehua·sinuodeng (Edward Snowden) accepted the guardian warned in an interview, United States cloud storage service Dropbox "hostile to privacy", he also called for more "zero-knowledge" (Zero Knowledge) approach, avoiding user data by others to get through a rigorous process.
Snowden recommended a Spideroak's cloud storage services
Snowdon points out thatDropbox has been appointed in April 2014, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Condoleezza Rice) as a Director . Lord Snowdon says, " Condoleezza Rice may be the most opposed to privacy official, she was responsible for managing Stellar Wind monitoring program. Dropbox are hostile to privacy . ”
In his view, cloud computing companies need to adopt "zero-knowledge" approach: Although the contents can be processed on behalf of the user, but I cannot get the user's content .
Lord Snowdon believes that from this point of view, Spideroak more trustworthy than Dropbox. Who provided similar to the Dropbox cloud storage service, but not for user content. "Although they could also be forced to hand over the data, but law enforcement authorities still need to obtain leave of the Court, to ask for keys. ”
Spideroak was founded in 2006. As with Dropbox, Spideroak also provides online storage services for corporate and individual users, but the service will encrypt the files on the user's device, and then transferred to Spideroak server, so they claim that its internal personnel are unable to access this content.
In theory, only holding the keys of the user himself, these files can be decrypted. This technology allows the data will not be affected by both internal and external hacker threats, any government agency that wants to get the user content, must also be made through the proper judicial procedure in order to ask the user for the key, and eventually gets the corresponding content.
