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Came here to say pretty much the same thing. It's slick and easy to use. It's actually the 'dropbox' I've always wanted and if they introduce a storage limit I'
by jgrahamc 11y ago
Came here to say pretty much the same thing. It's slick and easy to use. It's actually the 'dropbox' I've always wanted and if they introduce a storage limit I'd pay.
https://keybase.io/jgrahamc https://keybase.io/jgrahamc
- bduerst 11y agoMaybe this is a tangental question, but wouldn't it be relatively easy for dropbox to implement this? Or are you saying you prefer the command line interface?
- jgrahamc 11y agoI like the social proof, I like the crypto, I like the command-line as well.
- josh2600 11y agoGiven Dropbox's absolutely glacial pace of feature progression, no it would not be easy. I mean, all of dropbox runs off of one set of private keys... https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28 https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/28
- fapjacks 11y agoDropbox works with the NSA to hand over customer data. You are absolutely right that something like this would go over like a turd in a punchbowl at Dropbox HQ.
- kiwibulldog 11y agoUnlike Google, Microsoft and Slack, Dropbox does have the top, 5 star, EFF rating for protecting your data from the government... I'm not sure what more they could be doing. Edit to add link to EFF ratings: https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-requests-2015 https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
- msh 11y agoThey could do client side encryption.
- nkuttler 11y agoYou trust the end users to back up their private keys?
- __david__ 11y agoI don't care what other people do. I want client side encryption!
- jabl 11y agoAt least on Linux/OSX/Android, you can use encfs to have a encrypted directory tree.
- reitanqild 11y agoThen use tarsnap already. Bonus: it is owned by our own cperciva. tarsnap is nerdish, secure and reasonably priced for what it provides IIRC. Haven't used it though but expect someone would have yelled out here if it was bad. (In fact the only one I've seen bashing it was patio11, -because it was too cheap and too nerdish.)
- cperciva 11y agotptacek also complains that tarsnap is too nerdish. :-)
- msh 11y agoSpideroak can do it without private keys to back up.
- clinta 11y agoTheir profitability depends on being able to dedupe and compress data across all customers. They would need to raise prices significantly to make client side encryption a built in feature.
- tptacek 11y agoBy all means, just make stuff up. You've come to the right venue.
- rdl 11y agoI'm looking forward to group sharing, on-premise caches, etc.
- chadnickbok 11y agoWhat's also impressive is doing away with Dropbox's clunky "selective sync". While having everything stored locally sounds like a good idea at first, as you store more and more data is gets less and less user-friendly; in other words, power-users get the worst user experience. Additionally, creating an easy way to share files with friends without taking up their quota is awesome. This looks like it could be a very, very powerful competitor to Dropbox.
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- lewisl9029 11y agoAt one point OneDrive used a similar approach, and power users loved it. But they've since moved away from that in favor of Dropbox-style selective sync for reasons that didn't seem very convincing to me. [1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/onedrive-getting-worse-to-get-better-in-windows-10/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/11/onedri...
- IshKebab 11y agoNot storing files locally sounds like a good idea at first - you don't have any syncing issues. But nobody has a perfect always-on internet connection. Having files local is worth the occasional sync cockup.
- chadnickbok 11y agoOh for sure there's a reason that approach is dropbox's default - its really hard for people to understand their files aren't really "there". That said, my point is more that for people who start storing 100GB+ of data, it becomes harder and harder to actually manage which bits you want at any time.
- revorad 11y agoHi John, mind sharing an invitation?
- jgrahamc 11y agoSent to email in your profile.
- revorad 11y agoThank you!
- siggypop 11y agoCould I get an invite too? I really love the premise of this project! Thanks
- brechmos 11y agoMe too please?
- baobrien 11y agoI'd really appreciate an invite, too.
- iso-8859-1 11y agoyou have no email in your profile
- baobrien 11y agooh, whoops, I thought I had it in there. I did get an invite, though, so no need to worry.
- Graffite 11y agoLove an Invite! Really looks slick :D
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- fweespeech 11y agoYeah. 1 GB Free + $.XX per additional GB would probably be the best model for them, at least looking at it from the outside.
- starshadowx2 11y ago> We're giving everyone 10 gigabytes. >There is no paid upgrade currently. The 10GB free accounts will stay free, but we'll likely offer paid storage for people who want to store more data.
- fweespeech 11y agoI was implying they should lop of the 0 and go with 1 free GB.
- taylorhou 11y agoi'm 8 hours behind but would love an alpha invite! =) my username at gmail
- didip 11y agoCount me in as one of the people who are excited. If you don't mind, Can I also get an invite?
- spenvo 11y agoanother shameless request for an invite, mid-project and am very excited by what keybase is doing here. thanks!
- neslinesli93 11y agoAsking for an invite as well. Email in my profile. Thank you John, or whoever has any invites left!
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- iso-8859-1 11y agoemail NOT in your profile...
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- msravi 11y agoI'd appreciate an invite too, if you have one - vmarsi75-hn at yahoo dot com. Thanks!