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From http://www.backify.com/ http://www.backify.com/ : > Even the employees of Backify can not access your data. This is good news. It might be enough to make
by bajsejohannes 15y ago
From http://www.backify.com/ http://www.backify.com/ :
> Even the employees of Backify can not access your data.
This is good news. It might be enough to make me switch from Dropbox, everything else being equal.
- cuchoperl 15y agoBut they can access your password, stored in plaintext http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110634 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3110634
- bajsejohannes 15y agoOuch. Well, based on that and other comments, this definitely does not look like an appealing replacement for dropbox.
- dspillett 15y agoI tend to think that if the information I'm backing up is sensitive it should either be backed up only to services I run or should be encrypted before it gets sent to any 3rd party service. I wouldn't trust any "we can't see your data or know your credentials" assurance from a relatively unknown (or most known) 3rd parties.
- bajsejohannes 15y agoI agree completely, although I do take comfort in someone claiming they cannot access my data. I wouldn't store any confidential data there in any event, but at least if they are trying to design it so that even they cannot access that data, it seems there is a slightly lower chance of it being leaked to the internet. Dropbox already had one case where you could log in without a password. That could never happen if they actually needed the password to decrypt the data.
- fduran 15y agoIf they encrypt they have the key and someone must have access to it so this cannot be 100% true, same as Dropbox etc.