This question is driving me a little nuts lately:
A potential security lapse and possibly misleading statements are plaguing Dropbox, a hugely popular file-syncing app. What are the issues and is concern justified?
I migrated all my client data off Dropbox and into SpiderOak but it seems SpiderOak doesn’t offer Dropbox-like sync between my team members.
I’ve been testing out BitTorrent Sync but it also have a few challenges and probably isn’t feasible for now (no remote wipe is a problem). I have been using JungleDisk for secure backup to Amazon S3. It has a sync function which works a bit like Dropbox but it could be a real pain to implement.
I am wondering if I am being a teensy bit too paranoid about Dropbox so I am looking forward to reading this article. My concerns about Dropbox are that I don’t control the encryption keys; that there have been a couple really bad security exploits lately and I will never know if some government agency wants access to the data we hold.
One option, I imagine, is an OwnCloud installation but I’m not too sure what the security implications of that are. Is OwnCloud inherently secure or does it depend entirely on the server capabilities?
What do you think?