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From: Siddharth Ravikumar <sravik@bgsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 10:47:16 -0500
Subject: Rewrote abstract.

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 \begin{abstractpage}\label{combox-abstract}
   File storage providers on the Internet have made it non-trivial for
-  individuals to store personal files on the file storage provider's
-  computers. After Mr. Snowden disclosed information about the
-  National Security Agency' (NSA) surveillance programs that allowed
-  the NSA to access information stored on file storage provider'
-  computers, online file storage became a non-solution for storing
-  personal files for everyone who detested the possibility of somebody
-  else being able to access their personal files. In the past, there
-  have been separate efforts to come with a solution to allow
+  individuals to store their personal files online. At the same time,
+  there has been revelations about the existence of a billion dollar
+  surveillance industry\cite{website:wikileaks-spyfiles} that is
+  building and selling tools to governments and dictatorships to snoop
+  on its own citizens. In a world which is fast becoming Orwellian,
+  storing personal files on storage provided by file storage providers
+  is not even an option for some individuals. In the past, there have
+  been separate efforts to come up with a solution to allow
   individuals to use storage space provided by file storage providers
-  in a way that it made it impossible for file storage providers and
-  to access the files. combox is one such effort. It allows an
-  individual to store personal files in the ``combox directory'' on
-  all her computers (running GNU/Linux or OS X) and the combox program
-  takes the files, splits and encrypts them and spreads them across
-  file storage providers' directories. Therefore, when an individual
-  uses storage space provided by file storage providers through
-  combox, each file storage provider gets only a part of the file in
-  an encrypted form.
+  in a way that it made it impossible for file storage providers or
+  ``third parties'' to access the user' files. combox is one such
+  effort, it allows an individual to store their personal files on the
+  storage provided by Google Drive and Dropbox in such a way that only
+  part of each file (in encrypted form) is stored in Google
+  Drive/Dropbox. combox is a python package compatible with GNU/Linux
+  and OS X platforms. This report contains an overview of combox --
+  what it is, how it was developed and tested; explains how combox is
+  different from Vollmar's Combo-Box\cite{vollmar-combo-box}; reviews
+  projects similar to combox that help computer users to securely
+  store personal files on storage provided by file storage providers;
+  lastly, enlists things that can be done to improve combox.
 \end{abstractpage}
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