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Exactly, this is the big issue that is never mentioned in the Forbes article nor the BT Sync docs. Maybe it's obvious in hindsight, but since they're comparing
by pandeiro 13y ago
Exactly, this is the big issue that is never mentioned in the Forbes article nor the BT Sync docs. Maybe it's obvious in hindsight, but since they're comparing it to Dropbox and all...
However with the daemon running on a Linode instance or something like that, I suppose that's no longer a problem.
- 1_player 13y agoUnfortunately with BT Sync there's no way to have it running somewhere while keeping the data encrypted. I don't want any potential attacker on my server to have access to my unencrypted files.
- jng 13y agoThe same that distributed VCS systems liberated development from a single point of failure, this protocol allows any computer to become responsible of acting as "the always-on server". Now you can use a Dropbox-like thing paying someone else to do something much simpler: run an application to provide the service. Whoever provides the service can even offer redundant service very easily.