Re: [unhosted] Re: Dropbox planned to be added a PRISM provider

Ubuntu 1 isn't open source, the back end is entirely proprietary. Also,
Ubuntu never refer to their project as Linux any more.

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Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
On 8 Jun 2013 16:06, "Nick Jennings" <nick@silverbucket.net> wrote:

> Yes, there's Ubuntu One, an open-source alternative.
>
> ...  although I find it odd that under the platform support list is:
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> Windows, MaxOS, _Ubuntu_, Android, iPhone & iPad
>
> Not really making an effort to use the "Linux" name :)
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>
>
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> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 June 2013 03:44, Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net> wrote:
>>
>>> The main advantage of Dropbox is that it's extremely stable on multiple
>>> platforms and never has any merge issues. That's very very hard to do,
>>> especially the details surrounding multiplatform+OSversion support. Even
>>> Google Drive isn't close to Dropbox in that regard. The devil is in the
>>> details.
>>>
>>
>> Far from a perfect solution, but isnt Ubuntu One open source and cross
>> platform?
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 12:57 AM, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> It reminds me how Mega works... isn't it?
>>>>
>>>> By the way, how difficult would be to create (an maintain) an open
>>>> source clone? The main advantage of Dropbox is that's easy to use, but
>>>> that's could be replicated...
>>>>
>>>> 2013/6/8 Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On 7 June 2013 13:01, László Török <ltorokjr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> just my 2cs: use a cloud storage service where YOU generate your
>>>> keypair,
>>>> >> my favourite is
>>>> >>
>>>> >> https://spideroak.com/
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi Laszlo
>>>> >
>>>> > Do you know how they protect passwords from brute force attacks?
>>>> >
>>>> > Something like this, perhaps?
>>>> >
>>>> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/CryptoIdeas/01-PBKDF-scrypt
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Laszlo
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> 2013/6/7 Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Concerning issues for read / write commodity storage providers ...
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> --
>>>> >> László Török
>>>> >
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