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Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by morganvachon »

ultramancool wrote: post #51
morganvachon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see BitTorrent Sync in your list of alternatives. I've not used it myself, but I've heard good things about it. I just wonder if it's secure at all, given the open nature of BitTorrent itself.

BitTorrent Sync is not open source or even open protocol and I personally caught them lying about their cryptography by reverse engineering it a bit. Found calls setting up 128 bit AES rather than 256 bit as they claimed in documentation. Posted it on their forum and was told that I was correct and the docs were outdated. I didn't take my RE any deeper, but trust it at your own risk. I'd recommend SyncThing over it a…

Thanks, that helps. I was wary of it in the first place, but now I know I'll stay away.

I do love the idea of OwnCloud, and I've tried it a few times in the past. But it almost feels like they are paying more attention to making a "virtual web desktop" with the new file editing stuff, and less attention to proper file syncing. I've tried to use them for syncing in the past on my CoLo file server, and on a fast machine in my home, and it's just too slow and buggy for now. I wish I was a competent programmer so I could contribute in that department.

Late edit: I just realized you took my statement about BitTorrent's "open nature" to mean open source or protocol. I apologize, I didn't mean it that way and should have worded it better. What I meant was "open for all to see what you're transferring". Basically, the contents would be easy to snoop from what I understand. Sorry about any confusion.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by coherentpony »

celticninja wrote: post #53
icebraining wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone who dislikes Rice is left-leaning neither.

Yeah she is female and black so plenty for the right to hate.

While a large swath of people believe that conservatives hate women and people that aren't white, this is not the case.

Racists prejudice a specific race. Sexists prejudice a specific gender. Conservatives, however, are just people that have a different view on how a country should be run. These three things are completely separate qualities. Some people may exhibit several of these qualities, while others do not. I imagine this is why you are being downvoted.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by pessimizer »

cgore wrote: post #31

It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views. This kind of crap is what Fox News uses to claim all liberals are jack-booted fascists just waiting to setup USSR v2.0 here in America.

>It's pretty absurd that so many people are this willing to attack a woman just because of her political views.

And the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by Fuxy »

Why would i ever use Dropbox when there's a better more private option out there like btsync.

All you need to do is run your own server which I already do and you basically have the same functionality.

Re: Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?

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Post by vu3rdd »

ultramancool wrote: post #67
vu3rdd wrote: post #54

I dropped Dropbox post-Snowden revelations. I am now a proud user of Tahoe-LAFS[0]. [0] https://leastauthority.com/

Awesome - is there a decent sync client for Tahoe-LAFS though? I'm currently an OwnCloud user but I'd really like to try this option as I have several servers I could use for storage and mirroring, but they'd have to have encrypted storage.

You mean something like Dropbox autosync? There is a drop_upload option in the tahoe.cfg file. I believe it works fine on GNU/Linux. Not sure about other OSes. You could always use 'tahoe backup' command.
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