News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Apple’s Mistake. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Mistake by miles on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:23PM (#28119593)
> Meh. Dropbox and Google Drive can run arbitrary queries over your files stored there.

However, unlike with Apple's invasive on-device scanning, you can encrypt files before storing them at Dropbox or Google Drive. There are even simple turnkey solutions like Sookasa:

"Sookasa acts as a transparent layer over Google Drive to encrypt your sensitive files on the cloud and across connected devices..." https://www.sookasa.com/GD

"Sookasa protects data both on devices and in the cloud, and decouples the data from the encryption keys, meaning your data stays secure no matter where it goes." https://www.sookasa.com/dropbox-security/

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by bmarquez on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:15PM (#28120232)
Cryptomator is another encryption software which can encrypt files before they're uploaded to the cloud, and it's open source.

https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by endisneigh on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:24PM (#28119618)
How do you know Sookasa isn’t doing the same thing? It doesn’t appear to be open source.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by commoner on Monday August 09, 2021 @02:15PM (#28120234)
A free and open source alternative to Sookasa is Cryptomator.

https://cryptomator.org

https://github.com/cryptomator

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by Miraste on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:31PM (#28119681)
Open source software like rclone can do something similar.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by shuckles on Monday August 09, 2021 @01:48PM (#28119923)
You can irreversibly transform the image data of photos added to the Photos app as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Apple’s Mistake by aborsy on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:08PM (#28121733)
Rclone and gocryptfs are other options for cloud encryption.
[ Parent | on HN ]