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While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
http://www.spideroak.com has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here.
I like the logical chess game that Dotcom is playing here. Even if everybody knows that some of the storage will be used for copyrighted material, it can't be proven that ANY of it is. There are many legitimate reasons why people want secure, encrypted and private storage, so innocent until proven guilty (which can't be proven!)
Personally, I can't wait for this. Yes, I have a Dropbox account and have for years, but I like the ideology behind this, and lately the US government doesn't seem to be all that concerned about the liberties of its citizens - or citizens of any country. I'm just wondering if it has a desktop sync like Dropbox. Now that would be MEGA.
> but I like the ideology behind this, and lately the US government doesn't seem to be all that concerned about the liberties of its citizens Definitely a case of "no such thing as bad publicity". At this point, he probably has better name recognition than dropbox, before the product is even out.
That said I support the guy and will use MEGA. But double back up of sensitive files with a dropbox/skydrive/google drive.
MEGA could be the only cloud storage I'd actually start trusting. I don't use Dropbox, I don't use Google Drive or anything else, because I'm not interested in other people being able to peep at my data. While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
http://www.spideroak.com has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here.
Here's a list, taken from (http://www.kimpl.com/1297/secure-online-backup-file-sync-ser...) which also has some reviews.
(https://www.syncplicity.com/)
As others say, there's a difference between syncing and hosting; between levels of security; between ease of use; etc.
And obviously Tarsnap is great, for people who know what they're doing.
MEGA could be the only cloud storage I'd actually start trusting. I don't use Dropbox, I don't use Google Drive or anything else, because I'm not interested in other people being able to peep at my data. While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
But Dropbox is a YC company. Why do you need the assurance of some fancy acronym like AES?
MEGA could be the only cloud storage I'd actually start trusting. I don't use Dropbox, I don't use Google Drive or anything else, because I'm not interested in other people being able to peep at my data. While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
Wuala claim to be unable to access your files (https://www.wuala.com/en/learn/technology) (but who knows if they're lying?)
So this says all files will be encrypted with RSA, doesn't that mean who ever wants to access them needs the key? Is this just not a successor to Megaupload then? How will sharing files publicly work? Or will it at all?