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Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data Online
achillean wrote this morning with a link to the Wall Street Journal, announcing plans we've all seen coming for a while: an online data storage service from Google. Though the article doesn't come out and call the project 'gDrive' or anything like that, it does indicate the service could be available within the next few months. "Google's push underlines a shift in how businesses and consumers approach computing. They are increasingly using the Web to access applications and files stored in massive computer data centers operated by tech companies such as Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google. Such arrangements, made possible by high-speed Internet connections between homes, offices and data centers, aim to ease users' technology headaches and, in some cases, cut their costs."
Once installed, you upload your files by right clicking on them and selecting "I'm feeling lucky".
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In an age of sealed warrants, if the government even bothers with that, why would anyone put their data out of their sight? When it comes to privacy, I cannot see how the benefits outweigh the risks.
Some people have a way with words, and some people, um, thingy.
Google needs to incorporate encryption with keys totally held and managed by the end user in such a way that even if Google is subpoenaed or shown national security papers, Google would be technically unable to access end-user's data. Another words, at no time should Google have access to any of the user's cleartext nor the user's secret key. Decryption would all be client-side. A subpoena or national security letter would have to go directly to the end user who would then at least know they are being served.
I suggest calling it gPorn, because you know that's what's going to be on there.
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