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

Yes, there's Ubuntu One, an open-source alternative.

...  although I find it odd that under the platform support list is:

Windows, MaxOS, _Ubuntu_, Android, iPhone & iPad

Not really making an effort to use the "Linux" name :)




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:
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>> 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.
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> 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:
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>>> 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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