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Dropbox's founder said he would add end to end encryption as an option for the privacy geeks. Sadly, more than 13 years later, it still has not been implemented. Looks like it never will be. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8889
I think you can use duplicati for it https://www.duplicati.com/
They should atleast provide an option
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Keith Alexander is a well-known perjurer [1], he should be behind bars, not earning millions sitting on the board of directors of companies worth trillions. There's nothing "not bad" about this move, at least for our society seen as a whole. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/25/nsa-re...
Why on earth would it be a good idea to reveal highly classified information to the entire planet during a televised hearing?
I mean he could just said that he cant't answer that question because its't highly classified and this hearing is televised to entire planet, instead of lying
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Why on earth would it be a good idea to reveal highly classified information to the entire planet during a televised hearing?
> reveal highly classified information to the entire planet during a televised hearing? I mean he could just said that he cant't answer that question because its't highly classified and this hearing is televised to entire planet, instead of lying
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But it's hard to avoid the cheap offerings of US cloud. I'm from Sweden myself and I'm only speaking as a layperson who is observing the IT industry. It feels like the rampant capitalism in the United States, and lack of regulations, fuels the VC economy. Making startups like Google, Amazon and others possible. I can't imagine a company running on hundreds of millions in dollars of VC money with no real profit coming…
> It feels like the rampant capitalism in the United States, and lack of regulations, fuels the VC economy. Google, Apple, Amazon, ... are not startups, they are behemoths backed up by the USA government. Europe has many very good startups that are just purchased with USA dollars once they are successful. > we'd have to adopt the lax corporate regulations of the US That would only ruin Europe standards of living and…
This is incorrect. The current big tech companies became successful and massive without any special government deals. Google dominated search, Microsoft dominated all business and home PCs for decades, Apple and Google dominated mobile for consumers and businesses, Amazon beat them all to cloud and ate online retail with free fast shipping.
It’s only recently with JEDI that Amazon/Microsoft tried to attach directly to the government’s wallet in a big way. And even with losing that, it will be a drop in the bucket for either of them.
These companies were successful because they were allowed to move quickly and beat out competitors. The entire Internet industry blossomed and gave birth to these companies before the government even took the Internet very seriously.
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>Your data will stay in Germany unless you specifically decide to move it elsewhere. Prove it
How do you prove that a german company does not have secret data sharing agreements? Think cryptoAG.
Here in Germany I used to work for a company that swore off Amazon and other US cloud vendors because of things like this: the relationships between them and the government are too tight. They didn’t want German user data being compromised. It could have been FUD to do things on premises or what not but it seemed to make sense at the time and now with this...
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Parent comment is talking about self hosting “Google Docs, S3, Dropbox, GitHub, Slack“. Running all those things (and more) instead of focusing on your core business is probably a mistake for most companies.
I don't think so. The company I work for is really focused on digital independence. Their core business is industrial electronic component design. The whole supporting office runs on libreoffice, thunderbird, mattermost and nextcloud, all hosted on company premise. They employ two full-time admins, one for the windows clients, the other one for the linux clients (which one can ask for) and servers. This whole setup i…
As long as you have decent hardware (cpu/ram mostly) and reliable storage (netapp or something similar) you can get stuff done very easily.
Also, most people seems to not have noticed how fast computers and disks got recently and how resources you can pack into a single physical machine: you can nowadays fill a 2u, 2socket machine with 128c/256t (2x amd epyc) and literally terabytes of ram...
Here in Germany I used to work for a company that swore off Amazon and other US cloud vendors because of things like this: the relationships between them and the government are too tight. They didn’t want German user data being compromised. It could have been FUD to do things on premises or what not but it seemed to make sense at the time and now with this...
Amazon got too creepy for me five years ago. I have avoided doing business with them ever since.
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>In America See, that's what I'm trying to tell, What about 'Not in America'? Before I proceed further, I want to categorically state that I don't intend to come off as supporting privacy violations by one country vs another; My argument over this entire thread has been that it sucks for someone not in any of these countries as they all spy on us and it's taken for granted in this kind of discussions. That said, >use…
>What about 'Not in America'? Same advice, buy a VPN if you want the services that it provides. >Because they have 'No logs' policy? Come on, don't be naive. Contract with a VPN that is audited and resides in a legally favorable country. I hesitate to endorse any particular company, but they're out there. Maybe privacy just isn't convenient enough for you. >So you do agree that the Amercian VPN companies or any Ameri…
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>Same advice, buy a VPN if you want the services that it provides.
>You are allowed to do this at their law enforcement's mercy.