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Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by ekianjo »

davidjohnstone wrote: post #17
maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

On my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement. Bittorrent's Sync almost gets there, but isn't open source. I haven't really looked at it, but ownCloud might do what I want.

I heard ownsync is really buggy. Havent tried it though.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by mcread »

simgidacav wrote: post #6

Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the client is open source. Of course nothing is encrypted in there.

Indeed it depends on their willingness to make a backdoor, US companies don't have that luxury anymore ...

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by archivator »

simgidacav wrote: post #6

Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the client is open source. Of course nothing is encrypted in there.

From this perspective, tarsnap is even better - http://www.tarsnap.com/bugbounty.html

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by Pyramids »

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

If you're concerned about your personal data, and not so much about targeted attacks against you, I'd say stay with Dropbox and just use EncFS.

You can do this on Linux (and presumably OS X, as well) fairly easily.

On Windows, there is a single-developer port of EncFS, which from what I've heard works fairly well: http://members.ferrara.linux.it/freddy77/encfs.html

A quick search turns up a guide which (at first glance) seems fairly comprehensive on how to set this up if you're unfamiliar with the way EncFS works: http://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage...

With that said, if you're worried about any highly confidential data, potential for watermarking attacks or plausible deniability, this is not the right solution for you.

If you're looking for a way to protect your data from dragnet surveillance, your provider, or low-level law enforcement interception, this is a great drop-in solution.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by sahirh »

moystard wrote: post #19

Despite thorough researches and testing, I have never been able to find a good alternative to Dropbox in term of seamless synchronisation of my files, and accessibility across all the platforms I use. To secure my data, I just use BoxCryptor. It creates an encrypted volume within my Dropbox. It is free for non commercial use.

Have a look at BitTorrent Sync: http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html

One advantage is that there's no third-party storage of data involved.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by simgidacav »

davidjohnstone wrote: post #17
maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

On my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement. Bittorrent's Sync almost gets there, but isn't open source. I haven't really looked at it, but ownCloud might do what I want.

+1.

I'd like to know more about this. Working on a encrypted FOSS alternative to conventional storage would totally be a perfect side project

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by venomsnake »

davidjgraph wrote: post #16
simgidacav wrote: post #6

Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the client is open source. Of course nothing is encrypted in there.

A back-door in where, exactly?

The closed source binary blob?

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

#29

Post by lazyjones »

Wuala is great, but the short summary is a bit misleading. There is a real risk of government agencies forcing LaCie to push you a client update that removes encryption, in an older version of their T&C / product info, this was mentioned explicitly.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by Toshio »

gahahaha wrote: post #10

"""Do you plan to open the source code? Currently not. Opening the source code of Wuala would consume quite some time and effort, and commitment to maintain it. If you are a software engineer and would like to see how Wuala works, feel free to apply for a job at Wuala.""" ಠ_ಠ So.. an alternative, but not the solution we need.

> "If you are a software engineer and would like to see how Wuala works, feel free to apply for a job at Wuala."

A non-answer if I've ever seen one.

What about someone who applies for a job at Wuala, gets rejected, but still wants to look at the source code?

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