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Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is assuming the Government doesn't force Dropbox to install a keylogger on their client to get users TrueCrypt passphrases and possibly keyfiles.

If Dropbox bundled a keylogger with the Dropbox client, I'm pretty sure it would eventually attract some attention...

Who's to say they can't be convinced to push a one-off update to your account/machine. Perhaps a transitory one, to help cover their tracks?

The underlying problem is that you're trusting closed client software from a third-party. Once that is running on your system, arguably it's game over as far as what Dropbox or its like can and can't do to you.

(If you trust them, ok. But when documents state that "they're next", many of us start to wonder. And again, this isn't just access to a server. Through their client software, this is access to your machine, that you've already granted.

Admittedly, I'm describing the typical Dropbox user scenario and not where the client is manually applying -- or not -- each update, and somehow supposedly gaining insight into the capabilities of each update/version before doing so. And I'm also ignoring various forms of restricting the access of the Dropbox client, although if they really want you, they and parties using them would have extensive resources to apply to breaking out of such constraints.)

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

#163
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, they should have replaced the drive if it failed within 6 months. But expecting them to go to the lengths of recovering your data for free is a bit hopeful.

Hopeful yes, but no one expects a drive failure before even half of the warranty has expired surely?

The whole point of backups is that you should never expect a single hard drive to stay alive, no matter how young it is. Lots of hard drives with defects die early. For your own sanity, it is best to think of any data you have only one physical copy of as data that may not be there tomorrow. Personally I don't get comfortable until my most important data exists in two physical locations, so fire is not a risk.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Another alternative is hubiC. It's run by OVH, perhaps one of the most "techno-geek" companies in Europe that you can find… I don't see them feeding content to governments without any reason. In fact, they opened a DC in Canada and not the U.S. and one can guess why.

In fact, they opened a DC in Canada and not the U.S. and one can guess why.

Because it's culturally closer, I'd guess. OVH is a French company, and their Canadian data center is just outside of Montreal.

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