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will I need to have a Plug account to access my drives? Will I be able to access those drives from outside my house or office? Will my users/password for that account will be stored at some king of Plug centralized server?
The hardware is already made and available. Here's the manf listing for the Wanser-R: (http://www.mrt-communications.com/WANSER-R.html) Here's the Alibaba page for the MRT communications NAS Dongle device (http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/103191249/NAS_Dongle.htm...)
Here's an Amazon listing for something similar (http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-NASU2-NAS-Adapter/dp/B001OC5J...) and the manf page for that (http://www.addonics.com/products/nasu2.php)
I'm not sure I want someone doing weird things to my file system.
I really hated the way they described what it does. I also disliked the "new technology" to "instantly transfer files, no matter how many".
I have no idea if they've implemented the encryption in any kind of sensible way. I guess we'll hear later if someone breaks it. I guess it's nice that there's more encrypted traffic going over the Internet - regular people using encryption means encrypted traffic is not automatically suspicious and needs the same legal process of warrents to intercept it.
The usage of "anti-PRISM" is becoming meaningless. It's like the new rockstar node.js on rails ninja. Just a buzzword. If you think that using your own server instead of DropBox, switching from Gmail to another email provider, and encrypting the content of your files and emails will protect you from PRISM, well, you just don't understand at all what PRISM is all about. First, nothing prevent government to listen to w…
I do agree with your point however, I'm just nitpicking
This is a "USB NAS Dongle", with different software. The hardware is already made and available. Here's the manf listing for the Wanser-R: ( http://www.mrt-communications.com/WANSER-R.html ) Here's the Alibaba page for the MRT communications NAS Dongle device ( http://www.alibaba.com/product-free/103191249/NAS_Dongle.htm... ) Here's an Amazon listing for something similar ( http://www.amazon.com/Addonics-NASU2-NAS-Ad…
In this case what exactly does anti-PRISM means? How I see it it would be PRISM 2.0, since the NSA will now not only have access to your cloud files, now it will have access to your personal physical drives. will I need to have a Plug account to access my drives? Will I be able to access those drives from outside my house or office? Will my users/password for that account will be stored at some king of Plug centraliz…
> With Plug, all your devices are connected with each other thanks to a zero-configuration, private and encrypted VPN (asymmetric encryption based on RSA-2048/SHA-1 keys). We had excellent speed benchmarks on this network. It goes through any main NAT & firewall we tested, it's decentralized when possible, and it doesn't require any user configuration. It's safe and does the job.
> When Plug is installed on your computer, our application intercepts all the input/output operations performed on your files, using several patent pending technologies. When Mac OS X, Windows or Linux want to store or access data, they ask our application instead of manipulating the hard drive. When needed these operations are redirected to Plug. Thanks to this, we give you the best experience possible. We show in your OS all the files you have in your Plug, even if they're not actually in your computer. We use your local storage memory as a cache, to store both the files recently used and the ones you want to keep for offline-viewing.
I don't blame you for not knowing what the heck it is; I had to plough through a bunch of nonsense to find the above two paragraphs.
What could be really nice would be a kickstarter to get that poor Snowden out of Russia on a private jet and onwards to one of the countries offering him asylum.
The usage of "anti-PRISM" is becoming meaningless. It's like the new rockstar node.js on rails ninja. Just a buzzword. If you think that using your own server instead of DropBox, switching from Gmail to another email provider, and encrypting the content of your files and emails will protect you from PRISM, well, you just don't understand at all what PRISM is all about. First, nothing prevent government to listen to w…
It seems you don't know what PRISM is either. AFAIK, PRISM allows them to retrieve data from several companies that have given them access to do so. One of the leaked slides also mention the capturing of data from the fiber cables, but that wasn't part of PRISM I do agree with your point however, I'm just nitpicking
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Closed source This is THE dealbreaker for me. I felt so excited to see Plug. I was ready to sign up to Kickstarter to back my first product. It's a plug-and-play NAS, a data solution I've been trying to find. I really, really wanted to use it. But I can't for ethical reasons. I hate to sound like I'm preaching open-source but it's unacceptable anymore, although I will give them credit that it's a step in the right d…
> I hate to sound like I'm preaching open-source Why feel bad about it? It gets straight to the crux of the problem. If you're running closed-source software that is presumably taking updates from a third party outside your control, how much of an improvement is that over SkyDrive or Dropbox? As far as I can tell the only problem with these services is snooping by intelligence agencies and the consequences of that (p…
My experience with open-source software is somewhat a love/hate relationship. Most of the tools I use (vim, nginx, go, etc...) are amazingly high quality but others are seemingly poor - i.e GIMP vs Photoshop, Pages/Word vs LibreOffice Writer. They look pretty awful, they have unintuitive UIs and generally I have a bad time using them. As such, my attitude towards open-source software is it's "shit" because it looks terrible. The code may be solid but the UX hasn't been refined. This is the main reason why I run OS X; I get to use vim and Photoshop.
In some small way, I feel like I'm forced to use software I genuinely do not enjoy using. I like using Windows and I like using OS X. So far, every Linux distro has forced me back to either OS within a few weeks. Even Elementary OS; practically a clone of OS X ships with sub-par software.
Almost all software I run is closed-source/proprietary. I'm making an effort to adopt better software but it's difficult to find high-quality open-source software. I'm currently looking into contributing so I am actively working on the issue rather than sitting here complaining.
The usage of "anti-PRISM" is becoming meaningless. It's like the new rockstar node.js on rails ninja. Just a buzzword. If you think that using your own server instead of DropBox, switching from Gmail to another email provider, and encrypting the content of your files and emails will protect you from PRISM, well, you just don't understand at all what PRISM is all about. First, nothing prevent government to listen to w…
It seems you don't know what PRISM is either. AFAIK, PRISM allows them to retrieve data from several companies that have given them access to do so. One of the leaked slides also mention the capturing of data from the fiber cables, but that wasn't part of PRISM I do agree with your point however, I'm just nitpicking
Doesn't this list of companies include major ISPs?