Cable Forum - Online storage

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Originally Posted by Hugh (Post 35950630)

Google Drive: 15GB free, and Google Photos has unlimited free photo storage for photos of 16 megapixels or less, or videos of 1080p or less

Hmm does that still apply even if you pay for extra storage? Mine toggles about, between 100 Gig and a TB as and when, but the majority of it is due to the picture issue...a bunch of pics I keep there (for others to see) are under 16 MB (I think) but does that eat into my overall storage? It must as I can't be using so much for just plain text html messaging...

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Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35950623)

How much storage do you need? Mail.ru will give you 500Gb but I wouldn't trust it for sensitive info.

Anything to do with .ru is probably going to be seen as or marked as SPAM by the recipient...not necessarily because he does not trust the sender but because the entire domain is likely blacklisted by other providers / domains. (So it'll go to junk first, then you can mark individual mail and accounts as safe etc).

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Originally Posted by alanbjames (Post 35950605)

Can someone suggest to me a good online free storage solution thats either free or cheap with as much storage as possible and as secure as possible please.

(Emboldening added by me for emphasis).

So I have a friend who uses it for purposes of not having all his stuff marketed everywhere (like with Gmail) and I need to ask him about it but like me, he uses Protonmail.

This is their site:

https://protonmail.com/

Now, they advertise it as end to end encryption:

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End-to-End Encryption

Messages are encrypted at all times

Messages are stored on ProtonMail servers in encrypted format. They are also transmitted in encrypted format between our servers and user devices.

Messages between ProtonMail users are also transmitted in encrypted form within our secure server network. Because data is encrypted at all steps, the risk of message interception is largely eliminated.

Now I assume that they are not the standard line on encryption the way that say What'sApp / Apple claim and it can be broken very easily but I am curious if and how Protonmail comply with warrants and wireless access to comply with requests from regulators and or law enforcement.

Now I believe full well that if it comes down to it (and it becomes a security risk) government's around the world will take them at their word when they say:

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Zero Access to User Data

Your encrypted data is not accessible to us
ProtonMail's zero access architecture means that your data is encrypted in a way that makes it inaccessible to us. Data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that we do not have access to. This means we don't have the technical ability to decrypt your messages, and as a result, we are unable to hand your data over to third parties. With ProtonMail, privacy isn't just a promise, it is mathematically ensured. For this reason, we are also unable to do data recovery. If you forget your password, we cannot recover your data.

The problem for them is that regulators and foreign governments can just "fine, but we can block your ability to communicate within our jurisdiction". It hasn't gotten that stage one day but we're not there yet as such a hypothetical scenario has not arisen.

This is their OS crypto system - I assume that they would leave it as informative as it is (to the public) were it not truthful:

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Open Source Cryptography

Time-tested and trusted encryption algorithms
We use only secure implementations of AES, RSA, along with OpenPGP. Furthermore, all of the cryptographic libraries we use are open source. By using open source libraries, we can guarantee that the encryption algorithms we are using do not have clandestinely built in back doors. ProtonMail's open source software has been thoroughly vetted by security experts from around the world to ensure the highest levels of protection

Some more reading materiel on the matter and I am not sure if I am allowed to post such stuff so I will only link to it (sorry if that too, falls foul of the rules):

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-open-source/

Now they do have some errors on their site (and I will point them out to their own site some point soon) but it does look to be one of the most secure...though it is mail first, then storage / cloud. It comes at a cost, though:

https://protonmail.com/pricing

This is by far the most expensive webmail / email client / developer that I have ever come across.

Now the cheapest paid plan starts at 50 bucks a year in the respective currency and there are limits on how much mail you can send / how many labels you can have etc - much less than ad based mail. There is a VPN option but that is at the higher ends of the the plans which does get very costly. At 30 a month and even having the option to buy more it will dent your wallet, some.

It is based in Geneva and that is where I will be going in the next few days so I might ask about their system but truth be told I am thinking that it does seem to come at a very steep cost. I'll ask my friend what he does in regards to it as he is a highly qualified professional who uses it, for work purposes and I doubt that he would be able to survive on 500 MB alone (free level).

For security I would rate their mail, storage and domain service as number 1. Cost wise though, it is the most expensive I know and even then I wouldn't know that much more about it and would advise asking Paul or someone who is an expert in encryption when it comes to matters of security.

Hope that helps, some. :)