Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit | vmay's commentslogin

Can anyone recommend an alternative?


Assume "the cloud" is always untrustworthy, and act accordingly.

Sync encrypted filesystems to the cloud. EncFS has some known issues, but for a lot of my stuff, where it's "write once read many times" it still seems to be OK from an encryption point of view - though it inevitably leaks file size information. On the other hand, it does play very nicely with Dropbox/GoogleDrive/BTSync - although for the sufficiently paranoid you need to consider the risk of the Dropbox/GoogleDive/BTSync binary running on your device having access to the unencrypted local partition... Using rsync or some open source sync tool might mitigate that somewhat (but I suspect if you've got data which you suspect an attacker might subvert Google or Dropbox to get access to, you _really_ shouldn't be trying to work out how to protect that data on someone else's storage - buy your own hard drives and deal with multiple copies and geographically separate duplicates yourself)

(because remember, there is no "cloud" there is only "other people's computers")


5$ for a 500 gigabyte server, put seafile on it, done.


Where can you get a 500GB server for $5?


OVH gives me an Atom-based thing with a 500GB disk for £2.98pm.


I'm looking on the OVH website, but I don't see it?


It's from Kimsufi, OVH's unmanaged, budget offering: https://www.kimsufi.com/en/


The closest deals i know are

- 4TB is 25 GBP/mo at SoYouStart

- 250GB is 7 USD/mo at BuyVM


I think I'm going to wait for his opensource, non-profit alternative.


Would it be a violation of a non-compete to drum up interest before the non-compete expires?


that depends on his actual non-compete agreement, not some generic legal theory.


This is a very good question. I really hope someone with domain knowledge answers it.


tarsnap


I can recommend spideroak.com


And I can recommend against it.

I attempted to use them for a while but found the upload speeds of their (proprietary and closed) clients to be utterly useless for anything more than a trivial amount of data.

Everything I found pointed to it being a client issue (the client was simply not uploading 90% of the time and my PC was more than capable of performing the required encryption and hashing operations far faster than my network connection could accept the bits) so I opened a ticket and talked to their support for over 6 months (!!!) and in the end they decided to just refund my money.

If you have a trivial amount of data, go ahead and use the $7, 30GB plan but don't fall for their 1TB plan, there's no way you can get close to using it.


Non-compulsory voting = Bush = Blair


Drone porn? The next logical step from 'upskirt porn'?


I like CW too :)


protonmail.ch


"Patriot Act"

"Freedom Act"

Oh, my...


Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: