PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution

Post by moviuro » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:33 PM UTC

zorked wrote: post #10

moviuro wrote: post #7

FWIW, I've been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it's synced on my "fleet". I'm not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation? EDIT> The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or wh…

A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.

Post by zorked » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:36 PM UTC

moviuro wrote: post #11

zorked wrote: post #10

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A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.

So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep. Sounds risky. Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably à la filecoin? [0] [0] https://filecoin.io/

Post by rakoo » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:42 PM UTC

moviuro wrote: post #11

zorked wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.

So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep. Sounds risky. Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably à la filecoin? [0] [0] https://filecoin.io/

Post by yjftsjthsd-h » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:53 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #9

moviuro wrote: post #5

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tarsnap's target audience is sysadmins and other UNIXy gurus. My grandma and my dad, who would benifit most from a secure sync mechanism would probably be unable to use it. Also, I'm not sure how you can use tarsnap at good cost for p2p sync. [0] https://www.tarsnap.com/

Tarnsap is for backup, I don't think it can really be used for sync in the general sense. It's also hard to predict how much it's going to cost you if you don't exactly know how much data you're going to upload (and is IMO prohibitively expensive for even moderately-sized backups). I love the tech behind tarnsap, I love that the client is open source, I love the whole philosophy of it but I really struggle with the p…

Post by iagovar » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:09 PM UTC

rygxqpbsngav wrote: post #16

iagovar wrote: post #14

Based in the US apparently. I guess everyone here knows what that means. Not a great jurisdiction if you are concerned by privacy.

Still PIA got good standing in avoiding the data/log access requests so far for their VPN service.