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Apple 'Safe Deposit Box' Patent Revealed Ahead of Mac OS X Lion
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This will likely end up in Mac OS X Lion as a "Time Machine iDisk". I wonder what they will do with the pricing, but it will probably integrate with MobileMe while being sold as a separate service.
Two things:
1. Westmere and Sandy Bridge support AES-NI. This instruction set allows hardware accelerated AES encryption (Apple uses AES-128 and AES-256).
More info:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni/
2. BBEdit saves your sensitive information under
/Users/YourName/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/
UNENCRYPTED!
This is "very nice", if you save your sensitive BBEdit documents on an encrypted disk image. A "nice" security hole.
1. Westmere and Sandy Bridge support AES-NI. This instruction set allows hardware accelerated AES encryption (Apple uses AES-128 and AES-256).
More info:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-advanced-encryption-standard-instructions-aes-ni/
2. BBEdit saves your sensitive information under
/Users/YourName/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/
UNENCRYPTED!
This is "very nice", if you save your sensitive BBEdit documents on an encrypted disk image. A "nice" security hole.
"innovative" is doing things RIGHT, not just doing things the first time.
Anyone can napkin-scribble. Not everyone can develop an idea to make it work and then bring it to market successfully.
The industry and consumers think "iStuff" is very innovative, in case you hadn't noticed. It's only the tech-minority like you that don't seem to get it. It's amazing that being smart and being completely out-of-touch can go hand-in-hand.
+1...... but i do like the idea of keeping it encrypted and safe from others on my own laptop.
Cloudy day
Right. That Cloud is gonna be safe. Just like your money in NASDAQ. Oh wait the chi-coms are already in the Nas. Oh well......
Right. That Cloud is gonna be safe. Just like your money in NASDAQ. Oh wait the chi-coms are already in the Nas. Oh well......
Please, Apple, add whole-disk encryption support in Lion. PGP sucks and TrueCrypt does not support whole-disk encryption yet on the Mac.
True, for example, I would love to see Adobe release a version of Photoshop that only includes stability and performance fixes, instead of stupid new features that I won't use but they still slow down the entire application for some reason. This will never happen though...
well in this case it has already been broke to the market very successfully. Ever hear of this little program called dropbox. It works really well and basically does the same thing.
This to me is another one of the useless patents that increases the number but would be thrown out if apple ever tried to sue with it.
I cant see this working if it syncs to Apples cloud.
They certainly wont provide it for free, thats a given. So you'd probably see something like a MobileMe subscription with levels of diskspace.
Apple being Apple would charge $99 /year for 20GB space, $200 / year for 50 GB space, etc Providing stupidly low amounts of space for a stupid price.
In addition, iDisk is a broken, flawed platform. As will any cloud storage service be that Apple places exclusively in its new Datacenter. Connectivity to the rest of the world (which ultimately matters MORE than the US market) is appalling with iDisk due to the distance.
They certainly wont provide it for free, thats a given. So you'd probably see something like a MobileMe subscription with levels of diskspace.
Apple being Apple would charge $99 /year for 20GB space, $200 / year for 50 GB space, etc Providing stupidly low amounts of space for a stupid price.
In addition, iDisk is a broken, flawed platform. As will any cloud storage service be that Apple places exclusively in its new Datacenter. Connectivity to the rest of the world (which ultimately matters MORE than the US market) is appalling with iDisk due to the distance.
Most people don't have a remote server to put it on. And most don't even know encrypted disk images exist.
The ability to simply drop the file onto the droplet would be a nice touch for most consumers who can't code nor have a desire to.
Double Encryption, Possible?
If one were to encrypt a data file via a third party app, and then put the product of that in the Safe, would it be encrypted a second time?
If one were to encrypt a data file via a third party app, and then put the product of that in the Safe, would it be encrypted a second time?
Its not too obvious, but safe folders are allmost there in OS X ever since:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr1CPmYtf8A&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr1CPmYtf8A&hd=1
1. I don't think they do content filtering on iDisk.
2. With the proposed encryption system, Apple would have no way of knowing what you were storing.
If it's actually secure, no one will know what you're storing. If Apple can peak and see that you're storing porn, then the whole idea of selling this as a security feature is moot since it's obviously not secure...
File Vault that's accessible over the net. Is that what we're talking about here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FileVault