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Sure, but just compress and encrypt. It won't play in place, but otherwise it's nondetectable (other than by out of band timing/metadata or very rough size esti

• bshipp 5y ago
  ...which is what floors me when Google made this statement. I thought the whole benefit of their Google drive system was deduplication of common files to minimize storage space costs. If they start tinkering with private files then people have no choice but to encrypt everything. This will cause their storage requirement to explode. However, if the goal is only to prevent public sharing of content in contravention of the user agreement then I'm surprised it took them this long to implement this.
  • 41b696ef1113 5y ago
    How many people have the wherewithal to encrypt their content? Even if some have the technical capability, how many are willing to take the reduced quality of life required for what is probably a low probability risk?
    • RachelF 5y ago
      You can use something like Syncdocs https://syncdocs.com https://syncdocs.com which supports encryption/decryption on the fly to Google Drive
• jmclnx 5y ago
  Came here to say this. Only an idiot (should say people without knowledge) would upload any personal data to the "Cloud" without encrypting it first. That includes pictures. As for size, you can always tar/encrypt its dir and include dummy files to modify its size.