Anyone Use Dotpost?

[Jeff Gaines]

My council (Wiltshire) has suggested I use Dotpost to communicate with it.
It seems to be yet another cloud based service but brags about how secure
it is.

Does anybody here use it? Any thoughts good/bad/other?

--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
The facts, although interesting, are irrelevant

[Tickettyboo]

On 2014-03-14 10:31:17 +0000, Jeff Gaines said:

> My council (Wiltshire) has suggested I use Dotpost to communicate with
> it. It seems to be yet another cloud based service but brags about how
> secure it is.
>
> Does anybody here use it? Any thoughts good/bad/other?

Not used it, but when we lived in Canada I did use a similar system
(e-post) and all the utility bills etc went through there. Seemed to
function just fine.
--
Tickettyboo

[Jeff Gaines]

On 14/03/2014 in message <bogcf2...@mid.individual.net> Tickettyboo
wrote:

Thanks Boo.

I'm a bit wary of the cloud since Dropbox was hacked, somehow they got
hold of all my unique email addresses and they are now spammed incessantly
:-(

--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK

There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those
who can't.

[ray]

"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/03/2014 in message <bogcf2...@mid.individual.net> Tickettyboo wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-14 10:31:17 +0000, Jeff Gaines said:
>>
>>> My council (Wiltshire) has suggested I use Dotpost to communicate with
>>> >>it. It seems to be yet another cloud based service but brags about how >>secure it is.
>>>
>>> Does anybody here use it? Any thoughts good/bad/other?
>>
>> Not used it, but when we lived in Canada I did use a similar system
>> >(e-post) and all the utility bills etc went through there. Seemed to >function just fine.
>
> Thanks Boo.
>
> I'm a bit wary of the cloud since Dropbox was hacked, somehow they got
> hold of all my unique email addresses and they are now spammed incessantly :-(

Are you referring to the Dropbox 'hack' in 2012 which wasn't really a hack,
just an employees stolen password which gave access to a document listing
users login email addresses. Or the hoax hack in January this year that
never happened?
And how do you make the connection between either of those to your spam
problem?


--
"Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a
dose of common sense." -Chapman Cohen, author & lecturer (1868-1954)

[Jeff Gaines]

On 15/03/2014 in message
<2058001901416565672.229...@news.eternal-september.org>

ray wrote:

>Are you referring to the Dropbox 'hack' in 2012 which wasn't really a hack,
>just an employees stolen password which gave access to a document listing
>users login email addresses. Or the hoax hack in January this year that
>never happened?
>And how do you make the connection between either of those to your spam
>problem?

Probably 2012 I think, that's when the problem started.

I had a text file containing log in details of about 12 email accounts up
there, it enabled easy set up on different machines, that's what the cloud
is for.

--
Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK

I take full responsibility for what happened - that is why the person that
was responsible went immediately.
(Gordon Brown, April 2009)

[tane]

nope

[Indy Jess John]

On 15/03/2014 08:35, Jeff Gaines wrote:
> On 14/03/2014 in message<bogcf2...@mid.individual.net> Tickettyboo
> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-14 10:31:17 +0000, Jeff Gaines said:
>>
>>> My council (Wiltshire) has suggested I use Dotpost to communicate with
>>> it. It seems to be yet another cloud based service but brags about how
>>> secure it is.
>>>
>>> Does anybody here use it? Any thoughts good/bad/other?
>>
>> Not used it, but when we lived in Canada I did use a similar system
>> (e-post) and all the utility bills etc went through there. Seemed to
>> function just fine.
>
> Thanks Boo.
>
> I'm a bit wary of the cloud since Dropbox was hacked, somehow they got
> hold of all my unique email addresses and they are now spammed incessantly
> :-(
>

I took the precaution when setting up Dropbox to use the e-mail address
that is primarily to catch spam. If that address gets hacked, then it is
just more spam to be bulk deleted and I don't care where it came from or
why.

Jim

[ray]

"Jeff Gaines" <jgaines...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 15/03/2014 in message
> <2058001901416565672.229...@news.eternal-september.org> ray wrote:
>
>> Are you referring to the Dropbox 'hack' in 2012 which wasn't really a hack,
>> just an employees stolen password which gave access to a document listing
>> users login email addresses. Or the hoax hack in January this year that
>> never happened?
>> And how do you make the connection between either of those to your spam
>> problem?
>
> Probably 2012 I think, that's when the problem started.
>
> I had a text file containing log in details of about 12 email accounts up
> there, it enabled easy set up on different machines, that's what the cloud is for.

Hmm, well that particular issue only resulted in the hackers getting a list
of email addresses users use to login to Dropbox. They didn't get any
passwords so they couldn't get in to any accounts.
And if you have a plain text file up there containing login details, you
should encrypt it.
Or use a password manager on your PC or USB flash drive if you need it to
be portable. Encrypt it though.