Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by hellweaver666 on Thursday June 17, 2010 @11:08AM
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Stupid question... but if I put something personal in there... what's to stop you from reading it? I mean... you could steal my million dollar startup idea. Or is that the plan?
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Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by detcader on Thursday June 17, 2010 @11:40AM
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the "add password" feature?
Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by samdk on Thursday June 17, 2010 @11:58AM
(#1439325)
Doesn't mean the data's encrypted on the server-side though. The person running this could probably access anything written here pretty easily. That's a trade-off you make with almost any cloud service though.
If you have a super-secret million-dollar startup idea or something really personal that you don't ever want anyone reading, you probably shouldn't be putting it anywhere on the internet.
Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by jacobbijani on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:01PM
(#1439336)
Eh. Do you email ideas? Someone could read those, too.
Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by marcus on Thursday June 17, 2010 @12:57PM
(#1439524)
Actually as all email traffic is sent in clear text (unless encrypted using PGP or a program of the sort) - these can be read by any node between your SMTP server and the recipient's POP server not just the end points.
Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by dreepers10 on Thursday June 17, 2010 @01:43PM
(#1439710)
The site definitely needs HTTPS.
Re:Notepad.cc - a piece of paper in the cloud
by RexCardello on Thursday June 17, 2010 @02:51PM
(#1439975)
I agree. While someone on the server might be able to read it, there's no need for everyone with a sniffer to be able to.
Regardless, I like this.