Does anyone know of a service like Dropbox - Home - Secure backup, sync and sharing made easy., which has a desktop app, but that has permissions so people you share with cant edit files?

Prefer free, but willing to pay for something that has sync folder system like dropbox does.

2GB is more than enough for my needs.

Thanks.

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Dropbox looks pretty good, what about using a simple FTP server?

Or.. use googlemail; HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as a personal file server, http://www.techmixer.com/gspace-firefox-extension-turn-your-google-mail-as-online-storage/

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how about a kingston datatraveller key 2gb??

I need to share with remote users

Dropbox looks pretty good, what about using a simple FTP server?

Or.. use googlemail; HOW-TO: Use your Gmail account as a personal file server, GSpace Firefox Extension- Turn Your Google Mail as Online Storage

Handy links, thanks.

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Thanks.

Have also found this, which I think ticks all my requirements for permissions. Wuala - The social online storage

Depending what it is you're sharing you might want to encrypt the files.

When it's hosted on the 3po site you've effectively lost control of it and you can't control access to it from them (also they might be backing up to where-ever). You are effectively trusting the host to treat your data properly.

So if it's personal, sensitive or commercially valuable I'd protected it.

You should always have a backup copy too.

Also a lot of these type of sites are blocked by corporate internet filters, which might cause bother.

Hmmmm, that might be a big issue. :(

Ubuntu one?

The idea was to share using one of these services memos, software updates etc as the engineers are too lazy, or bombarded with info they dont need nor understand fully.

Share a virtual folder with them and drop all the info in there. That way they cant say they dont have it, as they all surf porn of an evening, download torrents or are on facebook

But now I'm thinking this might not be such a good idea for the security of the data - which is commercially sensitive.

You don't need to rule it out but you'll need to take 'reasonable' precautions.

1) You could create a small truecrypt container place your files within that and upload it to a fileshare site. Share the passkey with your chaps via email or phone, doesn't matter as long as the passkey isn't placed with the file.

2) You could even use the encryption within Word if you're using Office files but I mean the encryption not the password protection, that does nowt.

3) Or you could buy hosting in the UK and have sFTP set up on it for your guys to down load from.

It all depends on the value of the information you want to send. If it's very valuable then you also need to consider how it is being handled after it has been downloaded. Sounds like the machines they are going onto can't be trusted as such either.

1 or 2 are probably the better options because the file remains protected irrespective of where it is. As long as your guys don't write the password beside the file.

http web interface with password protection.

Tag each files metadata or watermark word docs to PDFs with the username of the person who downloaded it (easily done) and that way you have a level of traceability for the docs and files.

Just get a simple database to pull the docs off a storage system that only the admin and the DB have access to. Job done

Thanks guys.

Playing with truecrypt now.

http web interface with password protection.

Tag each files metadata or watermark word docs to PDFs with the username of the person who downloaded it (easily done) and that way you have a level of traceability for the docs and files.

Just get a simple database to pull the docs off a storage system that only the admin and the DB have access to. Job done

Depends on the value of the information. If it's very high value ( a list of all clients) or particularly sensitive (company accounts, health records, disciplinary files etc) then that wouldn't be sufficient.

The host would still have access to the files and you'd have to be concerned about the standards for backup i.e. is the backup encrypted, is it within the EEA etc.

Watermarking provides a route for prosecution but doesn't protect the confidentiality of the information if it enters circulation.

Encrypting the files before they are hosted covers more bases more thoroughly. The remaining weak point is the end user who will download and decrypt. If they aren't responsible with the passwords or copy decrypted documents to other storage (usb key in carpark:rolleyes:) or print them, you could still have problems.

It's all about finding the right balanced of security Vs usability Vs risk.

Checkout http://www.mydisk.se.

Very nice service, with wabdav and online access and reasonably configurable access.

2GB store is free. You can pay for more. I know the guy who runs it, but have no financial or other involvement.

DAVE

I was assuming the data was sensitive enough to care about but not sensitive enough to worry about and at the same time were hosted internally.

Outside of my assumption all your points are of course valid.