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Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by cybwraith »

sametmax wrote: post #148
mFixman wrote: post #12

I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?

There is. It's called dukto ( http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11 ), and works on mac, linux, windows and android. It will use zeroconf to automatically find all duktos on the local network, and let you send stuff to them in a blink. Proprietary but free as in beer.

Dukto is great!

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by berry_sortoro »

Why are they trying to get you into signing in. You need to sign in for sending files that are downloadable more then once and if you want to send more then 1gig. So they WANT you do specifically link your upload to your account, that in fact makes it LESS private. Here we go again Mozilla, they claim they are for privacy but they actually prioritize easy of use and other things over it. Privacy never comes first for Mozilla, they can claim that as much then want. Could write list of things why but I am to lazy right now.

As discussed elsewhere they are selling BS as end to end encryption when in fact the key in in the URL so to speak and they are not educating people in that they need to communicate the link (and pw) end to end encrypted as well or its all just made up. People WILL use this to email links use twitter PMs and stuff for it and they will REVEAL EVERYTHING to all kinds of 3rd parties with this deception marketing by Mozilla. They are more about selling your stuff then actually doing it - Sad.

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by nicebill8 »

ausjke wrote: post #328
timvisee wrote: post #50

I've been building a fully featured CLI tool for Firefox Send, supporting this new release. For anyone that is interested: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend

do I need install firefox to use this tool? looks neat!

Nope, you don't need Firefox to use the site anyway.

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by timvisee »

ausjke wrote: post #328
timvisee wrote: post #50

I've been building a fully featured CLI tool for Firefox Send, supporting this new release. For anyone that is interested: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend

do I need install firefox to use this tool? looks neat!

No, see the requirements here: https://github.com/timvisee/ffsend#requirements

Along with ffsend, you can use any browser to upload/download files through https://send.firefox.com/ as well.

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by alias_neo »

lbeltrame wrote: post #304
jgruen wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

boop: https://github.com/mozilla/send

As far as I can see, this requires S3 or a S3 compatible service. Kind of defeats the purpose of self hosting unless you can set one yourself (it may be, I didn't look). EDIT: Apparently there's a way to use filesystem instead of S3, it's just not well documented.

Minio is your friend. (S3 compatible self-hosted, open-source object store).

I recently implemented a text/snippet sharing tool that uses Minio instead of S3, because I like to self-host everything.

https://minio.io/

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by zcid »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #56
mFixman wrote: post #12

I can't believe that there isn't a simple service to transfer data between my cellphone and my computer without going through the internet. iTunes is terribly bloated, MTP is a mess, and Bluetooth is slow and frustrating. Back in my hacker day I used to have an SSH server open on my cellphone and use it to transfer files back and forth with my computer. Why isn't there a mainstream service like that?

A number of Android File Managers these days (Amaze comes to mind) include a toggle option to turn your phone into an FTP Server. You would then just pull it up on your computer via ftp://192.168.X.X and put an optional user/pass over it. I've used that for many years if I need to quickly transfer some documents or songs between devices. Not technically inter net so much as intra net.

This is my preferred method. I use SolidExplorer to start the ftp server and use an alias to access via lftp.

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by scriptkiddy »

lmedinas wrote: post #263

a bit off topic but here it goes... This is how i think Mozilla can capture more users back to Firefox. By providing "extra" services attached to the Mozilla and Firefox brand will make them a superior product to the end user. Sure it's hard to compete with Chrome but if you offer useful features and services integrated in your Browser i see that Mozilla actually has a chance to compete with Google for the browser sp…

Along the same lines, a Gmail-esque Thunderbird web service would be amazing. I could finally de-google myself completely if that were the case.

Currently, I need to set up my own email hosting through a service like fastmail and then configure a desktop client(like Thuderbird) to use it.

A Mozilla Gmail-esque service would remove a lot of the friction there and probably bring in a bunch of users who are tired of google running everything.

Re: Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

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Post by scriptkiddy »

_bxg1 wrote: post #100

Ah man, I literally came up with (and prototyped) this exact thing in 2013. Minus the end to end encryption. I dropped it mostly because I wasn't sure how to prevent illegal use and didn't want to be liable. Edit: mine was actually (partially) better because it assigned a short PIN instead of a full link, which meant you could just look at it and remember it for typing-in, instead of requiring a separate channel to "…

If you're still interested in this type of tool, I'm sure Mozilla would welcome your contribution: https://github.com/mozilla/send
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