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Client-side encryption severely worsens the economics of Dropbox, and not everyone needs it. If you want that you're perfectly entitled to go build your own com
by qq66 15y ago
Client-side encryption severely worsens the economics of Dropbox, and not everyone needs it. If you want that you're perfectly entitled to go build your own competitor, which will have higher costs.
- rednaught 15y agoIt's already been built such as Spideroak and Wuala. Dropbox could capture more of the market and even concerned businesses if they make this even as much as a simple configurable option. If the data deduplication costs higher because of client-side encryption, then charge me the commodity price of storage for that option. Not everyone needs it but some do...
- cfgvjkljhgfb 15y agoCustomers that want encryption - aren't the sort of customers you want. "We need encryption for our business data" = indemnify us against any financial loss, PR disaster and legal implications of us losing any data, however we manage to do it. ps. did we mention we need it to be acceptable to our credit card processor, our military customers, the data we hold about peoples health records. pps. and this is all shared with our European subsiduary so it has to be acceptable to all their rules as well. ppps. sorry did we mention china ? We will happily pay $5/month for this simple encryption service
- sliverstorm 15y agoHow do you propose they pay for the development? I personally doubt they will suddenly have businesses with deep pockets knocking on their door with fistfuls of money.
- aristidb 15y agoThey could charge for it separately.
- jallmann 15y agoTarsnap. http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://www.tarsnap.com/
- slug 15y agotarsnap is good, but try to teach your [insert] on how to use the tar command and what [sb]crypt means.
- jacques_chester 15y agoI've once or twice mused about building and selling an app that backs onto tarnsap. The service itself is fantastic, but it's not aimed at the mass market.