Gmail Disk Drive for Windows

Dave M. says:

My only concern with this is the security risk. I have heard of a few people who have had their Gmail accounts hacked.
If you are going to use Gmail as an “external” disk drive, I would suggest putting only unimportant “safe” stuff in it. If someone somehow gains access to your Gmail account, having access to secret/incriminating info just isn’t good.

Dieter Demerre says:

If you fear your gmail account would be hacked, of google itself would (as they are entitled according to the user-agreement) consult your data (files stored in your account), you should use a cryptographic file-system.
How ? (watch it, I haven’t tested it and certainly the performance might be a problem, so you could use the cryptfs on gmailfs as a backup-medium, but probably not as a life-system.. don’t know, haven’t tested).
$ GmailFS=/mnt/gmail1;
$ FILE=${GmailFS}/cryptfile;
$ DEV=/dev/loop1
/* mount the gmail filesystem, */
$ mount ${GmailFS}
/* create an empty file for the cryptographic filesystem: */
$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=${FILE} bs=1M count=512
/* attach the file to the cryptographic device */
$ sudo /sbin/modprobe cryptoloop
$ sudo /sbin/losetup -e twofish ${DEV} ${FILE}
/* create the filesystem */
$ sudo mkfs.ext3 ${DEV}
/* mount the cryptographic system */
$ sudo mount ${DEV} ${MOUNT} -t ext3
now you can use ${MOUNT} directory as a really good protected filesystem.
/* shuting down: */
$ sudo umount ${MOUNT}
$ losetup -d ${DEV}
$ umount ${GmailFS}

michel says:

Use truecrypt for gmail encryption: http://www.truecrypt.org
i don’t know you can use the encrypt hard drive future but the encrypt to file function does work properly (my advice: use a stored else ware saved keyfile to maximize security