![]() ![]() Individual Copy accounts provide 15GB of cloud storage free of charge, and paid plans start at $9.99USD/month or $99USD/year for up to 250GBs. It also has the same “share public link’ feature that Dropbox has with the same idea of a folder you drop stuff in to share and backup across all your computers just like Dropbox. Copy also allows users to share files privately using Copy’s built-in identify verification. File-level ownership is verified prior to transferring anything to other devices. Included data verification inspects data before Copy accepts it into the user’s cloud storage. Ĭopy works across Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux computers and offers mobile device support for Apple iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) and Android, with Windows Mobile coming soon.Ĭopy say that they provide a secure alternative to other cloud storage services. You can watch the 40-second video on the Copy “Fair Storage for All” initiative. Since its public debut less than 90 days ago, Copy apparently is already approaching half a million users worldwide.Īnother feature clearly aimed at Dropbox is Copy’s “Fair Storage for All” Initiative - Instead of counting data in shared folders against all members’ individual storage quotas so everyone pays for the same data over and over, Copy allows users to “split the bill” and control which files count against their storage capacity. They give you 15GB to start with and then if you find a successful referral then you both get an extra 5GB, not just the person offering the invitation.Ĭopy comes from Barracuda Networks and is a new online file syncing, sharing and storage service built on the secure Barracuda Cloud. It's also reasonable to expect Apple and other computer makers to find a fix for the problem.I have just come across a new player on the cloud storage and file sharing ‘block’ simply called Copy. So it's certainly reasonable to have a little paranoia when working in front a computer's webcam. Abrahams pleaded guilty to extortion and computer hacking. There's also the 'sextortion' case in which 19-year-old Jared James Abrahams of Temecula, Calif., was accused of taking nude photos of Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and at least seven other woman by hacking into their computers. There's been no word on whether the company will make any changes.įor people quick to pooh-pooh the privacy implications, I point to a Post article in which a former FBI official says the agency has been able to hijack webcams in computers for several years. The researchers turned over the source code of iSeeYou to Apple, which followed up several times to discuss their work. However, experts say there's no reason why the same technique can't be used on newer Macs and other computers. Only MacBooks and iMacs released by 2008 were used in the research. The Washington Post has shared a video of the scientists' work. The researchers named their application iSeeYou. ![]() While the software is useful for engineers to fix systems in another town, RATs are also a favorite among hackers. The university researchers used a homegrown remote access tool (RAT) to demonstrate how to easily invade a Mac owner's privacy.Ī RAT enables someone to control another person's computer remotely. For hackers knowledgeable in firmware, that opens the possibility of reprogramming specialty processors used to control components, such as the battery, keyboard and camera. Mac security is centered on preventing malicious code from running on the computer's main processor, the CPU. The researchers took advantage of a chink in Apple design. ![]()
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