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Mozilla Offers Free Secure File-Sharing Service
2019-03-13 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Mozilla has announced Firefox Send, a free encrypted file-sharing service that works in a any browser. To share a file, you simply visit the Send site and drag your file to a box on the Web page. Unregistered users may upload up to 1 gigabyte in files, while registered users have a 2.5 GB allowance. After uploading your files, you choose an expiration time for the link used to share them.
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Keybase Releases Encrypted File-Sharing iPhone App
2016-02-08 19:43:38| TechNewsWorld
Keybase last week announced the alpha release of the Keybase app for the iPhone with a cryptographically secure file mount. Users can write data in an automatically created folder in this format: /keybase/public/username. Files written in the folder are signed automatically and appear as plain text files. The folder prevents server-side and man-in-the-middle attacks, Keybase said.
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Lenovo fixes hard-coded password in file-sharing utility
2016-01-27 04:58:39| Wireless - Topix.net
Lenovo has patched several software flaws in a file-sharing utility, which could allow attackers to browse and make copies of files. The flaws were found by Core Security, which described in an advisory a lengthy back and forth dialog with Lenovo starting in late October over the problems.
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Canada Levitates Data from File-Sharing Sites
2015-01-29 16:23:15| TechNewsWorld
Canada's spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment, has been eavesdropping on 102 free file upload sites, including Sendspace, Rapidshare and Megaupload, which has been shut down. A CSE program called "Levitation" lets analysts access information on 10-15 million uploads and downloads of files from such sites daily, according to documents released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
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Popular UK Sports File-Sharing Site Shuttered
2014-04-22 19:35:19| TechNewsWorld
The Sports Torrent Network, a brazenly named file-sharing site, shut down after UK police threatened to put its operators behind bars for up to 10 years. TSTN was a hotbed for illicit broadcasts of European soccer, the National Hockey League, Formula 1 races and more. The site reportedly had about 20,000 members, making it "possibly the largest site of its type."
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