None of the above.
Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?
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#12Nextcloud
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#13Dropbox. They are the only ones to not lose my data, randomly share my private things to the public, or have crappy clients.
They did have that pretty terrible bug where you could log-in to anyone's account with a blank password for a while though...
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#14As 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.
I believe backblaze let's you backup with your own key, but you should confirm as I'm only ~95% positive.
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#15As 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.
It's not as user friendly to set it up as it could be, but I'm using https://upspin.io
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#16I 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?
The OP gave a specific reason: "I’m interested in decluttering."
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#17As 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.
It does mean of course that you can't search through your files while they are stored on the cloud or use any cloud-native editing tools on those files. For many, this is a reasonable tradeoff, but it means the encryption can't be totally transparent.
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#18As 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.
Password protection using 7Zip probably is the easiest solution.
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#19As 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.
odrive.com does this very well IMO.
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#20I 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?
P(your data compromised) = 1 - P(storage provider never hacked)^(number of storage providers)
All else equal, using more storage providers increases your risk of exposure, not decreases it. And for most classes of sensitive data, the loss of any of that data can still cause problems, e.g. imagine health records... if only 1/5th of your patient data was hacked, that would still be a very bad situation (and before anyone asks, yes people use Dropbox for this[1]).
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/static/business/resources/getting_st...