This weekend, I moved all our confidential documents (including those on the encrypted disk image) out of Dropbox, and into a folder that my wife and I share with BitTorrent Sync.īitTorrent Sync is made by the same people who make BitTorrent, and it’s basically a robust peer-to-peer filesharing system.
Most likely getting archived at the NSA, since Dropbox was on the “interest” list in the PRISM documents.Īlthough it’s probably futile to try to completely escape their net, this NSA ordeal was the straw that broke the camel’s back in my growing disinterest in keeping personal information on servers easily accessible by other people, and so I decided to make a change. As a consequence, we ended up moving some confidential documents (like QuickBooks data files) out of the encrypted image and back into just Dropbox, so that she’d have access. The problem is that since I’m frequently archiving business purchase receipts in an EagleFiler repository, that encrypted volume pretty much stays permanently mounted on my MacBook Air-which means that my wife at home can’t concurrently access any of the other documents on that image. (Sparse bundle images are really OS X package files, comprised of lots of “little” files, so that incremental backup to cloud providers or Time Machine is efficient.) 
Until now, we’ve stored almost all of our documents in Dropbox, using a common account.Ī while back, wanting an extra layer of security within Dropbox, I decided to create an encrypted sparse bundle image to store our confidential documents-bank statements, contracts and the like. My wife has an iMac at home and I have a MacBook Air that I shuttle daily between home and the office. The recent news about the NSA’s access to the data hosted with cloud providers got me re-thinking how I store and access my sensitive documents-and not only from the point of view of privacy, but also in terms of convenience.
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