Google Will Host All of My Pr0n

[Lemur]

It's very decent of Google to offer to host all of my files. Frankly, I was wondering how to archive all 87 episodes of Spanking Nuns in Heat. What do the Orgahs think of the Gdrive? I, for one, welcome our new data-cloud overlords ...

Gdrive is basically a cloud-based storage that should have two faces: A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer. In addition, it will come tightly integrated with other Google services to enable editing of supported document types, like spreadsheets and presentations via Google Docs, email via Gmail, images via Picasa Web Albums, etc.

This opens powerful possibilities. For instance, you could start working on a spreadsheet at home and continue via Gdrive web interface accessed in an Internet cafe. When you arrive back home, changes to the spreadsheet have already trickled down from the cloud to your desktop. The idea, of course, is all but revolutionary, but Google's execution could set it apart.

[Crazed Rabbit]

Hmm, no thanks, I don't care to have Google spy on all my hard drive and not just my email.

CR

[naut]

*Glances to over 1TB of Harddisk space.*

Well I don't really have to worry about disk space. And despite making it easier to access files anywhere, I can do that in a limited fashion already anyway. Yahnow, 16GB USB drives only cost about $50. Or I can use my own discretion about which files to upload by using something like Box.net. I'd rather not have Google sniffing through my garbage.

So thanks, but no thanks.

[Whacker]

I'd say it depends on how it works. Can you run something like Truecrypt on top of it?

[Adrian II]

For instance, you could start working on a spreadsheet at home and continue via Gdrive web interface accessed in an Internet cafe. When you arrive back home, changes to the spreadsheet have already trickled down from the cloud to your desktop.

Sure.

Or you could walk around all day with a giant internet plug in your [lower bodily aperture] so Mr Google, Mr Government, Mr Advertiser and Mr Insurance Company will know where you are and what you're up to 24 hours a day.

Wouldn't that be revolutionary, boys & girls?

[caravel]

My thoughts exactly... Google: Was simply a great "search engine" once upon a time.

[Ramses II CP]

Today data privacy is a lie you tell yourself; if you really needed something to be private (To avoid be convicted of a crime, or losing your home in a divorce, etc.) you would discover it actually isn't private at all, nor is it really under your control. I will jump all over 'gdrive' when it comes out without a second thought because I put nothing on my computer with the expectation that it can be kept private.

[drone]

Today data privacy is a lie you tell yourself; if you really needed something to be private (To avoid be convicted of a crime, or losing your home in a divorce, etc.) you would discover it actually isn't private at all, nor is it really under your control. I will jump all over 'gdrive' when it comes out without a second thought because I put nothing on my computer with the expectation that it can be kept private.

To some extent, true. But if you are going to accept the invasion of privacy by corporate entities, you should at least make them work for it.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Boy, Google sure is generous.

[TevashSzat]

External Harddrives are extremely cheap nowadays so there is no reason to need the GDrive. I have a 640 GB external one and happen to have a TON of TV shows (easily 200+ episodes of various shows) and there is barely a dent.

I would highly doubt anyone would have that much pr0n that they would need to keep. Also, this kinda depends on having an Internet connection. Due to aging cable wires around my house, my accessibility to internet can be spotty at times so I don't really want to suddenly lose access to my files

[Tellos Athenaios]

The real question is: will you be able to let others view your files? If so, that means you have a strange free mix between FTP/WWW hosting right there.

Oh, and to avoid indexing sensitive data; it is easily possible to simply upload file-images of _filesystems_. Filesystems (or partitions thereof) can easily be encrypted.

[LeftEyeNine]

Whatever Google's Privacy Policy may tell you, in the end how can you make sure that your files are not monitored in any way ?

I understand innovative dynamism is the way to keep your company alive, especially in this sector, however while whole world has gone paranoid about what has/may intrude(d) the PCs, such attempts yield nothing but unavoidable suspicion.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Encrypted files are _encrypted_ files, the idea is not to make sure that your files aren't being watched (au contraire, you almost expect them to when you employ encryption) but rather that no meaningful information can be derived regarding the payload of the files.

[Xiahou]

Encrypted files are _encrypted_ files, the idea is not to make sure that your files aren't being watched (au contraire, you almost expect them to when you employ encryption) but rather that no meaningful information can be derived regarding the payload of the files.

The service isn't being advertised as a file dumping ground, it's supposed to keep files synced with your desktop in real time. I think that makes file encryption a little more complicated.

A desktop client that keeps local and online files and folders in two-directional sync via a web interface for accessing your desktop files anywhere and anytime, using any network-enabled computer.

[Caius]

At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmic chant of 'B-B! .... B-B! .... B-B!'—over and over again, very slowly, with a long pause between the first 'B' and the second—a heavy murmurous sound, somehow curiously savage, in the background of which one seemed to hear the stamps of naked feet and the throbbing of tom-toms. For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother...

BB, take care of our files.