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Last year a friend couple uploaded photos of their one-year son (I understand it were those "bathtub photos" parents like taking to embarrass the children when

Last year a friend couple uploaded photos of their one-year son (I understand it were those "bathtub photos" parents like taking to embarrass the children when they grow up) just to get their paid account blocked. They panicked because they used Skydrive to "securely" store lot of pictures, including their travels, honeymoon, etc. The husband was a bit tech-savvy, but I failed to convince him to always PGP-encrypt the files and rename them to non-significative names before uploading. At least, I made them never trust these services again. I, personally, never use these file storage services to hold anything but encrypted data assuming that such data can disappear overnight without any warning.

r00fus 12y ago
Do you use a product like Boxcryptor or the like? I've always had problems getting these kind of tools to work across OSs (mainly mobile). If you roll your own solution, do you limit to desktop usage, or how do you get mobile support as well?
- vonuebelgarten 12y ago
  I just use GnuPG with some specific temporary keys (eg. "Project P File Transfer Key"). All transfer are among desktop/laptop machines, so mobile apps are not a requirement. And I don't use GDrive to sync data to my phone.
Infinitesimus 12y ago
Hmm what you describe conflicts with what u/m0dest mentioned above. I'd like to hear word from him/her about the matter. If your friend's content wasn't shared, the the image must have been someone processed for known nudity patterns
- Dylan16807 12y ago
  >The scanning policy used to be more aggressive and didn't exclude content that was unshared or only shared to a small set of people. >Last year No conflict.
- vonuebelgarten 12y ago
  I suppose Microsoft started using some fuzzy/NN/heuristic/etc. pattern matching algorithm to identify pornography, so it caught the photos my friends uploaded even if they didn't came from a know database.

r00fus 12y ago

Do you use a product like Boxcryptor or the like? I've always had problems getting these kind of tools to work across OSs (mainly mobile). If you roll your own solution, do you limit to desktop usage, or how do you get mobile support as well?

vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I just use GnuPG with some specific temporary keys (eg. "Project P File Transfer Key"). All transfer are among desktop/laptop machines, so mobile apps are not a requirement. And I don't use GDrive to sync data to my phone.

Infinitesimus 12y ago

Hmm what you describe conflicts with what u/m0dest mentioned above. I'd like to hear word from him/her about the matter. If your friend's content wasn't shared, the the image must have been someone processed for known nudity patterns

Dylan16807 12y ago
>The scanning policy used to be more aggressive and didn't exclude content that was unshared or only shared to a small set of people. >Last year No conflict.
vonuebelgarten 12y ago
I suppose Microsoft started using some fuzzy/NN/heuristic/etc. pattern matching algorithm to identify pornography, so it caught the photos my friends uploaded even if they didn't came from a know database.