I don’t even trust myself with my data. It’s too easy to do something stupid. How could I possibly trust anyone more than that?
Ask HN: Who do you trust most with your data?
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#22Different people can mean different things when they speak of trust. What kind of trust are you looking for and what's most important to you? You want your data to remain highly private? available at all time? versioned forever? You want the provider to have decent support when you need it?
If you'll define what your requirements and priorities are you it will be easier to find the service that is best for you.
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#24As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.
Is there any software that can do this in a very user friendly way? Ideally after entering a key when installing the software, I would never know that encryption is happening.
iCloud can do this with Pages and Numbers.
Of course it works when you download the file too.
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#25As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.
Metadata is quite valuable, so i think trust is still a big factor.
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#26If only I could pay for a service as easy to use as Dropbox but have my personal data managed by a company such as Apple...
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#28As long as you encrypt all of your data before uploading it, trust isn't such a big factor.
Is there any software that can do this in a very user friendly way? Ideally after entering a key when installing the software, I would never know that encryption is happening.
Looks like https://www.arqbackup.com/ might meet your needs. I haven’t used it personally though, my only reservation has been that it’s not open source.
The unofficial google drive linux CLI supports encryption with custom keys too.
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#29Long term, personal, and/or sizeable data, like my photos: my own hard drives, backed up every few months.
Stuff I work on daily: sync with a VPS I pay a small monthly fee for, using version control.
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#30Dropbox and Apple equally. But I work at Dropbox and I know how much effort goes into trust, security, privacy and compliance. Also for your interest the underlying infrastructure with its security measures etc is common between both Personal and Business products (one of the main differences with the business product is that it allows you to hook into your own enterprise security related systems such as IdM, DLP/CASB, SIEM, malware scanning etc as well as control security settings for the whole “team” (mandate 2FA, set password strength levels and device approvals etc)