You’re describing a paid service. With “free” and “respects privacy” you can only pick one. Free services like that are paid by violating your privacy.
I'm looking for the best free online storage site my files. That is heavily encrypted and respect people's privacy, what would you suggest?
Submitted 5 hours ago by andrewta@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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Perspectivist@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
Object@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Encrypt it locally, and upload it anywhere. If you are at a level where you cannot trust anyone, it’s best to do it yourself. The provider will just get gibberish alongside file size, last modified/access time, and your general login habit.
Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
good luck on high security, privacy focused without paying.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s not free, but Proton has bern good so far.
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I suggested this below and also decided on Proton Drive after considering self-hosting and realizing I was way over my head if I also wanted any kind of security/privacy. I like it so far. Folder backup is reliable and that’s all I really needed. Lots of nice features come along with the upgrade
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Youre going to need to either come up with some kind of budget or look into self hosting. I suppose Proton give you something like 10gb of email storage with the free tier of their email, though
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If something is free, then you’re the product. Your data will be used for whatever the storage provider would like. For example, Google Photos was initially very generous with storage, because they were using your photos to train their recognition software. Gmail is reading your emails to build our your advertising profile. Your data is a commodity, and your privacy, if you protect it, is valuable.
The best way to do what you’re asking for, to ensure privacy and security, is to self-host. There’s an initial cost, and some maintenance fees over time, but you’ll also be investing in learning valuable skills in your free time.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Crazy idea:
Encrypt it locally, then make a program that encode it into a “video” (as in: using the pixels in the video to store 1s and 0s), upload to youtube.
Voila! Unlimited free and secure storage!
(may break ToS)
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
YouTube is notorious for lossy compression on uploads. You’d lose a lot of data
GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 hours ago
The issue is downloading it with YT constantly making it harder to do, and pretty much against ToS.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
But it’s your own videos on your own accounts, you are the cooyright owner, just use Google Takeout to download lol.
andrewta@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
So you’re saying use the pixels as ones and zeros, so if I had just for example, a Microsoft Word document, I don’t use Microsoft Word but that’s beside the point, you’re thinking include the document into a video? I don’t know if that’s actually possible but damn, that would be kind of cool. Because I also have pictures and documents. But be cool if you could do that.
litchralee@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Steganography is one possible way to store a message “hidden in plain sight”, and video does often make a seemingly innocuous manner to store a steganographic payload, but in that endeavor, the point is to have two messages: a video that raises no suspicions whatsoever, and a hidden text document with instructions for the secret agent.
Encoding only the hidden message as a video would: 1) make it really obvious that there’s an encoded message, and 2) would not be compatible with modern video compression, which would destroy the hidden message anyway, if encoded directly as black and white pixels.
When video compression is being used, the available bandwidth to store steganographic messages is much lower, due to having to be “coarse” enough to survive the compression scheme. And video compression is designed around how human vision works, so shades of color are the least likely to be faithfully reproduced – most people wouldn’t notice if a light green is portrayed slightly darker than it ought to be. The good news is that with today’s high resolution video streams, the raw video bandwidth is huge and so having even just one-thousandth of that available for encoding hidden data is probably sufficient.
That said, hidden messages != encrypted messages: anyone who notices that there may be a hidden message can try to analyze the suspicious video and retrieve the payload. Encoding, say, English text in a video would still leave patterns, because some English letters (and thus ASCII-encoded bit patterns) will show up more frequently. But fortunately, one can encrypt data and then hide it using steganography. Encrypted data tends to approximate random noise, making it much harder to notice when hidden within the naturally-noisy video data. But bandwidth will be cut some more due to encryption.
TL;DR: it’s very real to hide messages in plain sight, in places people wouldn’t even think of looking closely at. Have you thought about the Roman Empire today?
notreallyhere@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
probably filen, maybe proton, but you can encrypt your data first before uploading
Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 4 minutes ago
Cryptomator + Any well known cloud storage provider (fmhy.net/file-tools#cloud-storage)