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In the end, I think I'll just use an EncFS volume and back it up with whomever is most convenient. If MEGA gives me 50 GB of free storage, they are very convenient.
"Site is extremely busy. Currently thousands of user registrations PER MINUTE." - @KimDotcom
"Wow. I have never seen anything like this. From 0 to 10 Gigabit bandwidth utilization within 10 minutes." - @KimDotcom
My associate is really wanting it. Not because it was Megaupload, my associate is very much against piracy... But he is a privacy nut, has truecrypted hard drives, and was sad there was no encryption on Google Drive. Now this has encryption, and office tools in the roadmap, I can see the excitement of a person against piracy can have!
MEGA could be the only cloud storage I'd actually start trusting. I don't use Dropbox, I don't use Google Drive or anything else, because I'm not interested in other people being able to peep at my data. While I don't perceive Dotcom as a trustable character, his incentive to NOT store any encryption keys on the servers is much higher than any of his competitors.
But Dropbox is a YC company. Why do you need the assurance of some fancy acronym like AES?
I could register and (apparently) generate a private RSA key, which was sent to mega.co.nz as part of a HTTP POST payload. I wonder if that's only used for the current session, which I guess is mandatory, but I'd like to understand more: how does the model work for sharing, for instance.
What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no?
I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use Dropbox almost exclusively and love it.
The point here is that, unless I am wrong, your data isn't safe anywhere outside your own four walls. So, if data loss is your concern, be sure to back it up locally.
If you do things right it should not matter if Mega (or any other service) implodes overnight. Set yourself up to not loose anything if that were to happen. If you do that, then you can use any service and sleep well knowing that such a failure (or confiscation by the Feds) is of minimal or no consequence to you.
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
I'd say at its present state, MEGA servers are one of the least likely to be raided, considering the clusterfuck with the last raid.
> if data loss is your concern, be sure to back it up locally
That's a horrible advice. A company that does data storage professionally is much less likely to lose your data. If you have a house fire or a major flood, your computer and your backups will be gone.
Diversification is the key to data safety. Back up both locally and online.
http://www.spideroak.com has been doing this for years. Nothing new to see here.
Have you actually used SpiderOak? While I have tried and tried, I find their interface (OSX and Win) to be utterly and irretrievably confusing.
Isn't it true that ANY web storage and file-sharing company could be raided and shut-down tomorrow? What's different between Megaupload and Dropbox or any of the others? If the Feds (and the Motion Picture industry) decide that Dropbox is hosting pirated works they could suffer the same fate, no? I am not focusing on Dropbox here. They are just a place holder for any storage/sharing service you'd care to name. I use…
And if they get raided, the Feds won't have shit against Mega or you.
About the backup part, they have servers in different countries, so it's safer. Personally, I wouldn't rely on any service alone, I always have an extra copy somewhere else. I do the same with my emails for example. If tomorrow my email provider shuts me down, I will lose at most ~12 hours of emails. All my other emails are in my PC and in Dropbox (encrypted, obviously). Next, I sign up to a different email provider, change my domain DNS, and keep receiving emails normally like if nothing happened.