{"id":22286,"date":"2011-06-30T07:47:12","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=22286"},"modified":"2011-06-30T07:47:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T12:47:12","slug":"maketecheasier-com-how-to-encrypt-your-files-improve-dropbox-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/maketecheasier-com-how-to-encrypt-your-files-improve-dropbox-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Maketecheasier.com: How to Encrypt Files &#038; Improve Dropbox Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox is indeed a great application. It gives you a free 2GB of storage space to store your files and allows you to access to them and sync them between different computers, regardless you are running Windows, Mac, Linux or any other smart mobile device. However, as good as it gets, there is one major issue. All the files that you have stored in the cloud are not encrypted. Whoever hack into your account can view and access all the files in your account, including those confidential documents that you have synced over the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Why is this important to you?<\/p>\n<p> A <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/blog.dropbox.com\/?p=821\" target=\"_blank\">mistake<\/a> made by the Dropbox team few days back had left the Dropbox&#8217;s main door open for 4 hours. During this period, anyone can log into any account and access all the files in that account without any passwords. While this affects <em>only<\/em> 1% of its users (which amounts to about 250,000, and that is not a small number), if you are one of those whose accounts have been compromised and you have confidential files in your Dropbox, you better watch out for the bad things that might happen to you.<\/p>\n<p>Since you never know when such incident will happen again, it is best to encrypt your files before you sync them to the cloud so there is a second level of defense when your account has been compromised.<\/p>\n<h3>1. SecretSync<\/h3>\n<p>SecretSync is a file-by-file encryption solution for Windows and Linux. Once installed, you will find a new &#8220;SecretSync&#8221; folder in your user directory. Any files that you place in this folder will be encrypted and sync to Dropox.<\/p>\n<p>The installation and usage of SecretSync for Windows is pretty straightforward. You simply <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/getsecretsync.com\/ss\/download\/\">download<\/a>, install and run it. it will then guide you through the encryption process.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110629secretsync-windows-setup-300x266.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"secretsync-windows-setup\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For Linux, the usage is purely command-line based.<\/p>\n<p>1. You have to first <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/getsecretsync.com\/ss\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\">download<\/a> the deb file and install it in your system.<\/p>\n<p>2. Open a terminal and type<\/p>\n<p>This will run the installer and download the necessary files from SecretSync site. It will also run you through the setting up process.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110629secretsync-linux-setup-300x197.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"secretsync-linux-setup\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22316\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After the installation, type<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp_syntax\">\n<div class=\"code\">\n<pre class=\"bash\" style=\"font-family:monospace;\">secretsync start<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>to start the SecretSync service. You should see a new SecretSync folder in your Home directory. Any files you place in this folder will be encrypted and synced to Dropbox.<\/p>\n<p>To get SecretSync to autostart everytime you login, go to &#8220;System -> Preferences -> Startup Applications&#8221; and create a new startup item.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110629secretsync-autostart-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"secretsync-autostart\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-22317\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/getsecretsync.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SecretSync<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/maketecheasier.com\/encrypt-files-in-dropbox\/2011\/06\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/b><\/h3>\n<p>This excerpt is shared with permission from maketecheasier.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/20110628maketecheasier.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"maketecheasier.com\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18914\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Encrypting your files before syncing them to Dropbox is a good way to improve Dropbox security and provides a second layer of protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[458,566,4871,546],"class_list":["post-22286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maketecheasier-com","tag-dropbox","tag-encrypt-files","tag-maketecheasier-com","tag-online-storage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Maketecheasier.com: How to Encrypt Files &amp; 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