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Looks very interesting, as services go. For this kind of thing, I'm strangely less inclined to trust a slick-looking, well-designed and heavily-marketed backup
by josscrowcroft 15y ago
Looks very interesting, as services go. For this kind of thing, I'm strangely less inclined to trust a slick-looking, well-designed and heavily-marketed backup "solution"..
If I do fork out for a service, I would probably rather go with the kind of company that has as their tagline: "Online backups for the truly paranoid", like them.
Pricing's not a killer either.
- po 15y agoThis service is run by a long time hacker news user and security researcher cperciva. Read his stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cperciva http://www.daemonology.net/blog/ http://www.daemonology.net/blog/
- merijnv 15y agoThe reason I trust (to the extend I trust anything on this planet) Tarsnap is that Colin Percival (the creator) is a cryptographer and the FreeBSD security officer. Leading to me have a higher confidence in him than most of the other "secure" backup services I have seen.
- josscrowcroft 15y agoYeah that's what I mean - it looks more trustworthy than something over-designed with 5 carefully-crafted price plans. Think I'll give it a shot soon. Thanks!
- polymatter 15y agoand when there was a critical security bug in Tarsnap, he behaved with extraordinary integrity and openness (http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-security-bug.html http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2011-01-18-tarsnap-critical-...). More than anything else, cpercival earned my trust simply by being honest. There are precious few companies I could say this about.