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I recently created a "petition" for SpiderOak to open source the client (and allow people to build it themselves from source) so that people can let SpiderOak k
by newscracker 13y ago
I recently created a "petition" for SpiderOak to open source the client (and allow people to build it themselves from source) so that people can let SpiderOak know their thoughts. The petition signatures are sent to SpiderOak.
It's still available at the link below if any SpiderOak user (or potential customer) wants to use it to "show the numbers" on a single site (as opposed to scattered comments):
http://www.change.org/petitions/spideroak-http-www-spideroak-com-open-source-all-client-software-code-3 http://www.change.org/petitions/spideroak-http-www-spideroak...
There's an online backup service called Cyphertite (cyphertite.com) that provides the sources for its client programs on all the platforms it supports. So I don't really see why SpiderOak, with its prominent proclamations of "zero knowledge", cannot walk the talk.
Of course, I understand that certain competitive advantages may take longer to provide in the open (until factors other than the client source code and backend architecture become competitive advantages). But I have to admit that SpiderOak has been dragging on opening up the source.
Edit: Let me also admit that I do like SpiderOak and the emphasis it places on privacy and in educating users about privacy. We need more services that strongly support what ought to be basic rights.
- rarrrrrr 13y agoThanks for your support and your efforts are much appreciated. We also agree that SpiderOak needs to be entirely open, and hope to have that completed within the next year. Everything new we've started in the last several years (including https://crypton.io/ https://crypton.io/ and https://nimbus.io/ https://nimbus.io/ and a variety of other things on our GitHub) is GPL'd. Stay tuned!
- rsync 13y agoYou already have what you want. The source is here: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ Actively in development, stable, ready for enterprise use.
- fxlv 13y agoYeah, buggy and unstable and just hangs when you throw large quantities of small files at it.