Most disposable e-mail address (DEA) services offer a temporary e-mail address, usually enough to quickly confirm an e-mail address, after which it gets deleted automatically. ![]() I have been aware of this advice for a long time, but never saw an easy way to act on it: That way when one site gets compromised there is no risk of your user credentials being used elsewhere, and if one site sells your email addresses on it is immediately apparent to you who did that. Or disposable e-mail addresses for sites you visit only once. And likely quite a few of those have had their security breached over time, or are unscrupulous (or even malicious) in their own right.Īs part of a talk on privacy by Brenno de Winter (Dutch investigative journalist) that we went to this weekend (see previous posting), he mentioned using unique e-mail addresses (and pw’s of course) for every site you use. It’s not just a way to communicate with others, but also serves as generic user name on countless website accounts. Over time my e-mail address(es) has (have) become the carrier of a lot of important stuff. Today I changed the way we use e-mail addresses for identification on-line. In technology | 14 Reactions Taking e-mail back, one user account at a time I just don’t want to use it (and never have) for parts of my own business files. Next to Wuala, I will keep a Dropbox account for some app integration and to receive files from others that use it. The purpose here is not to have a perfect solution, but one that is better than Dropbox on a few aspects, while not losing a lot in terms of ease of use. Of course there is no real way to check their encryption either. ![]() Their service is not ‘patriot act proof’ (and they know it, judging by their consistently vague and indirect answers in support fora), but the encryption helps address that. (although it may be easier to find a well protected server, than a syncing service)įor now I have started using Wuala, as it is at least two steps up from Dropbox because of its encryption and their data centers in Switzerland, Germany and France. The latter basically only pushes the selection question down from choosing a syncing service to choosing your server infrastructure. It does mean maintaining your own server which is not for everybody, or alternatively renting a server elsewhere. On the plus side this gives you full control, including checking the source code. OwnCloud is an open source solution you run on your own server. Their encryption and syncing however are a plus, as is the ability to work in teams. ![]() Wuala for the desktop requires Java, which is a bad thing. Although that looks good on paper Seagate HQ is in the US, placing Seagate under the Patriot Act, and thus Wuala ultimately too. Their data centers are geo-redundant and in France, Switzerland and Germany. Wuala, incorporated in Switzerland, is owned by LaCie (incorporated in France) which in turn is owned by Seagate (incorporated in Ireland). With the company and data center in Norway they are under a favorable legal data protection regime, but encryption is missing. JottaCloud looks interesting in terms of features, although it seems to fall short in working with teams e.g. ![]() Their company and data centers are in Germany which has strict data protection laws, which counts in their favor. Strato HiDrive does not provide meaningful syncing services so after a quick test-run of their paid for services I cancelled that again. SpiderOak is in the US and otherwise similar to Wuala, so that one is out in comparison to Wuala.
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