sniffing syncing traffic
Hi,
I'm running a course where I'm using Zotero to share material with students. It's important to me that no outsider is able to sniff out what material we are sharing. The course is private but what about the syncing traffic? Is there a way for outsiders to sniff that out (I'm using a SSH tunnel myself, but my students aren't).I'd really like to know that the syncing process is completely secure.
I'm running a course where I'm using Zotero to share material with students. It's important to me that no outsider is able to sniff out what material we are sharing. The course is private but what about the syncing traffic? Is there a way for outsiders to sniff that out (I'm using a SSH tunnel myself, but my students aren't).I'd really like to know that the syncing process is completely secure.
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Only a group of very sophisticated users with no weak link would be able to prevent that and that would involve a major degree of quasi-paranoid activity.
Zotero is at least as safe as any other form of online communication - if security is really a concern, don't include controversial material in the online course documents at all - stick to paper versions.
How far you want to take it is really a matter of what risks we're talking and what level of government repression.
edit: overlapped with ajlyon, but seems like we agree.