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Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by vonuebelgarten on Monday June 23, 2014 @01:52PM (#7933327)
Last year a friend couple uploaded photos of their one-year son (I understand it were those "bathtub photos" parents like taking to embarrass the children when they grow up) just to get their paid account blocked. They panicked because they used Skydrive to "securely" store lot of pictures, including their travels, honeymoon, etc. The husband was a bit tech-savvy, but I failed to convince him to always PGP-encrypt the files and rename them to non-significative names before uploading. At least, I made them never trust these services again.

I, personally, never use these file storage services to hold anything but encrypted data assuming that such data can disappear overnight without any warning.

Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by Infinitesimus on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:45PM (#7933670)
Hmm what you describe conflicts with what u/m0dest mentioned above. I'd like to hear word from him/her about the matter. If your friend's content wasn't shared, the the image must have been someone processed for known nudity patterns
Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by Dylan16807 on Monday June 23, 2014 @04:11PM (#7934308)
>The scanning policy used to be more aggressive and didn't exclude content that was unshared or only shared to a small set of people.

>Last year

No conflict.

Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by vonuebelgarten on Monday June 23, 2014 @11:57PM (#7936119)
I suppose Microsoft started using some fuzzy/NN/heuristic/etc. pattern matching algorithm to identify pornography, so it caught the photos my friends uploaded even if they didn't came from a know database.
Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by r00fus on Monday June 23, 2014 @02:37PM (#7933607)
Do you use a product like Boxcryptor or the like? I've always had problems getting these kind of tools to work across OSs (mainly mobile).

If you roll your own solution, do you limit to desktop usage, or how do you get mobile support as well?

Re:Massive increase to Onedrive storage plans by vonuebelgarten on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @12:04AM (#7936142)
I just use GnuPG with some specific temporary keys (eg. "Project P File Transfer Key"). All transfer are among desktop/laptop machines, so mobile apps are not a requirement. And I don't use GDrive to sync data to my phone.