Dropbox and Google Want To Make Open Source Security Tools Easy To Use

Posted by Soulskill on Friday September 19, 2014 @09:35AM from the bang-your-head-on-the-screen-to-unlock-your-forehead-profile dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Dropbox, Google, and the Open Technology Fund have announced a new organization focused on making open source security tools easier to use. Called Simply Secure, the initiative brings together security researchers with experts in user interaction and design to boost adoption rates for consumer-facing security solutions. The companies point out that various security options already do exist, and are technically effective. Features like two-factor authentication remain useless, however, because users don't adopt them due to inconvenience or technical difficulty.

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How about buying PGP? by mlts · 2014-09-19 09:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

If they are serious, they should buy Symantec Encryption Desktop (formerly PGP Desktop) from Symantec and open source the full version of that. It has a decent UI, works well with Outlook and Thunderbird, and does well on Windows, OS X, and Linux. That would give decent security on the hard disk level, file container, and individual file level. Even directories can be encrypted, CFS/EncFS like.