In BitTorrent Sync,
Having used it a bit (not too much),
just syncing a few directories with friends
and testing it out with a swarm of "Very Small" Azure 2008 nodes, which was a bunch of fun to stand up 10 (at $0.02 per hour each) of them and immediately have my own personal akaimai cloud.

It does not encrypt at the file level, but it would be easy to either;
A) for most security create a Trucrypt volume single file (assuming its not mounted) which could be replicated across the BTSync members

B) Mount a Volume in Trucrypt and have Bittorrent sync Syncronise a directory within that volume - this will be saved in the clear at the recipient end, but will be transmitted encrypted with AES.

The one point that does have to be addressed with BitTorrent Sync is that it is closed source...
This (I assume) is due to certain parts of the BitTorrent magic sauce that BitTorrent Sync uses, but it does mean you can never be quite sure of the encryption.

Cheers R.

According to Security Now/Steve Gibson, the encryption/security on the MEGA file site is not very sound

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-390.htm (search for "Java Crypto" to get about 3/4 way through the show) or listen to the podcast..

MEGA is well intentioned Im sure, but the Javascript code in MEGA does not cut it for serious security, and they need to dp waaay better for an email service.
Remember that ALL THE DATA is being retained now, so one crack in the system and there is a way in.

Air tight security is do-able, but needs to be serious - I wish Mega lots of luck.

BEST COMMENT EVER.

REALLY.

Agree entirely. Please Mod Up parent

The fact that its limited by Windows 8 is a big problem for this device, and thats Microsofts problem and no-one elses.

The fact that Microsoft seem unable to make a decent OS is the real elephant in the room here, if Windows 8 was as ground breaking, stable and powerful as (for example) Windows NT 4 had been relatively when it came out, they would be selling these by the boatload, and no one would care.

Im pissed off by it because I want a decent OS, not a phone OS conversion.. (Metro - 2 dimensional monochrome graphics is like looking at something from the eighties.

Windows 7 (which was only just good enough) will have to do for another couple of years.

Happy New Year..

Can anyone explain any advantage to these rules, other than "it makes the cops job easier".

And they casually talk about destroying our privacy (and by association related rights like freedom of expression) not to mention security.. .... just to make their jobs easier..

Imagine if every new road, even out in the desert had to have cameras and microphones, to record not just who drove on the road, but what they were talking about. All installed at the users expense.

And the authorities have complete access to it (without judicial intervention),
Yet somehow that data will remain secure?

In that case...

NOT EVEN IF ... they manage to get certified as a bank, using some loophole. (or any other means really).

EVEN IF they finally start behaving like a Luxembourg company and allow donations wikileaks again.

LOIC (Low Earth Ion Canon) has a catchy name, and has a cool cache among people who dont know much, but it floods the target with packets from your IP address, there is no external vector, so there is no way of hiding your IP address..

maybe the members of anonymous should have checked that

I was shocked when I found this out (Steve Gibson's "Security Now" podcast)

What did they think would happen?

This should be a strong warning to people who think of using LOIC.

Sorry - my mistake - the company had one employee (guess who?)

I wonder if he will insist the new computers will use "Cobol Data" and "skip logic". These are BS concepts he used in one of his early speaches. should should not act like he knows about IT when he obviously doesnt.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2009/08/12/special-report-is-us-chief-information-officer-cio-vivek-kundra-a-phony/
Basically he claims to have been the CEO of a company with 2 employees. A guy like that should not be holding his Role

I always rip the [caps lock] key off

Yep, even off the G15.
I found the only time I used the caps lock key was to turn it off when I had accidentally turned it on (because the damn thing is sooo big).
The genisis of the caps lock comes from shift lock on type writers, because they were actually quite heavy to hold the whole head of the typewriter up.
Any thoughts?

"fissile" is not the same as "fossil".

A fissile material is one capable of sustaining a fission reaction.

I agree with your point though.

Heres another thing to think of as well.

A high performance Ferrari will lose 25% of its power in the drive train (ie after the power leaves the engine and before it gets to the wheels).

A BFAC (Big Fat American Car) may lose up to 40% (depending on length of Drive Train, type of gearbox, differential etc etc)

An electric car such as the "Lightning"
  http://www.lightningcarcompany.co.uk/

sends all (or at least 99%) of its power to the wheels. Each wheel is capable of 120 KW (155 HP) which gives it a practical output of 480KW(>600HP). Compare that to a 6 litre BFAC engine that produces 450HP, but only 280HP gets near the wheels. All the other power is simply lost.

Electric cars are not "there yet" but the underlying technology has massive fundamental advantages over internal combustion technology.

I agree.

I would not go so far as to say "infinitely worse" - remember only 3 years ago howard said global warming was not happening.

But I was expecting far better. this kowtowing to the american copyright tzars is disgusting, especially since everyone knows it will make no difference in the end (filtering WILL go the same way as DRM in the end - ie itll be dropped)