Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?

#1

Post by plg » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 8:46 PM UTC

1. Apple iCloud Documents

2. Dropbox Personal

3. Dropbox Business

4. Google Drive

I have bits and pieces on each service. I’m interested in decluttering. Which should I choose?

Re: Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?

#2

Post by ocdtrekkie » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 8:55 PM UTC

I would point out that right now, you have your data divided across four different buckets, which means no one provider can completely compromise your data. Why would you want to end this arrangement?

Re: Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?

#3

Post by jlgaddis » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 9:00 PM UTC

As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.

Re: Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?

#4

Post by purespark2 » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 9:30 PM UTC

jlgaddis wrote: post #3

As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.

Is there any software that can do this in a very user friendly way? Ideally after entering a key when installing the software, I would never know that encryption is happening.

Re: Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?

#5

Post by rbcgerard » Sun, Apr 08, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

purespark2 wrote: post #4

jlgaddis wrote: post #3

As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.

Is there any software that can do this in a very user friendly way? Ideally after entering a key when installing the software, I would never know that encryption is happening.