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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by oarsinsync on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:24PM (#16781987)
> Crashplan: I have the keys :)

Do you really? They offer a web interface with access to your data. Do you enter the encryption keys when you access the web interface, or do you enter a username and password which then provides access to the encryption keys?

In that situation, who really has the keys?

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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by username223 on Sunday April 08, 2018 @08:38AM (#16785848)
IIRC, with Crashplan (RIP) you get a choice of whether to encrypt everything with a local key, in which case you're SOL if you lose it, or to encrypt with a key known to Crashplan, in which case you can reset your password and they can see your data. That seems like a reasonable trade-off to me, where different users will make different choices.
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Re:Comcast, AT&T and Verizon pose a greater surveillance ris... by closeparen on Sunday April 08, 2018 @04:31PM (#16788183)
Crashplan still works fine, you just have to get the business-branded version.
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