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Well, I would guess the number of people who need to backup 4T is rather small. My thinking is that most people likely max out well below the 0.5T that the sam

by moe 12y ago

Well, I would guess the number of people who need to backup 4T is rather small. My thinking is that most people likely max out well below the 0.5T that the same $5 buys you on Google now, making that variant actually cheaper for them than Backblaze. For those people it means paying less per month and getting privacy and better control (data retention!) in return. Should be a no-brainer.

berberous 12y ago
Backblaze lets you add a personal encryption key. I guess they could log that key when you try to decrypt and restore, although I trust they don't. I suppose the NSA probably gets the key when it gets transmitted, but I don't really care. Am I missing something here? If Backblaze's encryption implementation is substantially worse, I may switch.
- moe 12y ago
  I suppose the NSA probably gets the key when it gets transmitted [...] Am I missing something here? I'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic. ;) Anyway, if you don't care who has access to your backups then obviously my argument has no relevance to you.
  - berberous 12y ago
    "Well, what do I have to hide?" is a bad argument with respect to whether the NSA should be doing the things it does, but with respect to whether I am going to spend money and effort to hide my photos and documents from them, I think it's a fair argument. I care very much, however, whether hackers will have access to my files, as they can cause havoc with things like tax returns that the NSA won't (I mean, the government already has my tax returns....). So I was mainly curious if there was some significant flaw in Backblaze's encryption that should worry me from the perspective of a non-nation state adversary.
- pbowyer 12y ago
  Can anyone comment how Crashplan stacks up vs Backblaze here? I'm leaning towards it as it'll save the data for more than 30 days after deletion, and security's another factor in my choice.
  - dublinben 12y ago
    It's much more flexible in terms of external drives, and deleted files. You can also set multiple backup locations, by sharing space on your other computers. They have a proprietary Java client, but it runs cross platform. It's completely painless to add your own encryption key to all backups.

by moe 12y ago

berberous 12y ago

Backblaze lets you add a personal encryption key. I guess they could log that key when you try to decrypt and restore, although I trust they don't. I suppose the NSA probably gets the key when it gets transmitted, but I don't really care. Am I missing something here? If Backblaze's encryption implementation is substantially worse, I may switch.

moe 12y ago
I suppose the NSA probably gets the key when it gets transmitted [...] Am I missing something here? I'm not sure if you're being serious or sarcastic. ;) Anyway, if you don't care who has access to your backups then obviously my argument has no relevance to you.
- berberous 12y ago
  "Well, what do I have to hide?" is a bad argument with respect to whether the NSA should be doing the things it does, but with respect to whether I am going to spend money and effort to hide my photos and documents from them, I think it's a fair argument. I care very much, however, whether hackers will have access to my files, as they can cause havoc with things like tax returns that the NSA won't (I mean, the government already has my tax returns....). So I was mainly curious if there was some significant flaw in Backblaze's encryption that should worry me from the perspective of a non-nation state adversary.
pbowyer 12y ago
Can anyone comment how Crashplan stacks up vs Backblaze here? I'm leaning towards it as it'll save the data for more than 30 days after deletion, and security's another factor in my choice.
- dublinben 12y ago
  It's much more flexible in terms of external drives, and deleted files. You can also set multiple backup locations, by sharing space on your other computers. They have a proprietary Java client, but it runs cross platform. It's completely painless to add your own encryption key to all backups.