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

There's also something similar in bt-sync, anyone tried it yet? p2p syncing
(no central cloud service)


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 5:43 PM, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com> wrote:

> So, this confirm a 100% FOSS alternative should be developed.
>
> It's known how it works, uploading only file chunks and doing
> de-duplication on the backend, maybe it would be done using TTH as P2P
> networks does... BitTorrent Live would be another option and maybe open
> source, although I don't know how it works and also don't know if it's the
> best option... :-(
> El 08/06/2013 17:27, "Jon Spriggs" <jon@sprig.gs> escribió:
>
> Ubuntu 1 isn't open source, the back end is entirely proprietary. Also,
>> Ubuntu never refer to their project as Linux any more.
>>
>> --
>> 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:
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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