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I think Dropbox lost a reasonably large share of its market when the crowd that is both technical and privacy-conscious starting moving to more secure alternati

I think Dropbox lost a reasonably large share of its market when the crowd that is both technical and privacy-conscious starting moving to more secure alternatives. I love Dropbox and still have an account, as it has a great user interface and always worked on Linux, however I won't use it for anything that I don't consider "shareable" anymore. I prefer Spideroak [1] for actually saving my important documents. Sure, it may not look as nice, but for zero-knowledge guarantee I'm OK with that. [1] https://spideroak.com/ https://spideroak.com/

simplexion 11y ago
Spideroak is great and I was lucky enough to get in on their unlimited storage they offered a while back. I still only use around 200GB so far, but with the amount of photos my wife takes of the kids it is rapidly expanding.
TD-Linux 11y ago
>but for zero-knowledge guarantee I'm OK with that. How can you guarantee that when the client isn't open source?
- click170 11y ago
  You don't. Which is so disappointing because for a moment there they were getting my hopes up about Spideroak, but I can't get behind that in light of their proprietary client. Not even interested in trying it, its a non-starter in my books.
- chrisfosterelli 11y ago
  I can't. However, unless you built literally your entire system from source code and all of the programs that run on it and analysed that source code yourself personally, you can't guarentee that about anything. It's a matter of degree of trust. This is what Spideroak's business is built on. Sure, I'd like it if their client would be open source, however in the mean time they're still a better option than Dropbox for security conscious people and they have been working for a while to make as much as possible open source. [0] [0] https://github.com/SpiderOak https://github.com/SpiderOak
goalieca 11y ago
Condoleezza rice joining the board had a lot to do with it i think. I know a lot of people who cancelled dropbox then. Conscionable people cannot do business with someone who lied to get the Iraq war started. Also, there's no doubt she has NSA connections being a former national security advisor.

simplexion 11y ago

Spideroak is great and I was lucky enough to get in on their unlimited storage they offered a while back. I still only use around 200GB so far, but with the amount of photos my wife takes of the kids it is rapidly expanding.

TD-Linux 11y ago

>but for zero-knowledge guarantee I'm OK with that. How can you guarantee that when the client isn't open source?

click170 11y ago
You don't. Which is so disappointing because for a moment there they were getting my hopes up about Spideroak, but I can't get behind that in light of their proprietary client. Not even interested in trying it, its a non-starter in my books.
chrisfosterelli 11y ago
I can't. However, unless you built literally your entire system from source code and all of the programs that run on it and analysed that source code yourself personally, you can't guarentee that about anything. It's a matter of degree of trust. This is what Spideroak's business is built on. Sure, I'd like it if their client would be open source, however in the mean time they're still a better option than Dropbox for security conscious people and they have been working for a while to make as much as possible open source. [0] [0] https://github.com/SpiderOak https://github.com/SpiderOak

goalieca 11y ago

Condoleezza rice joining the board had a lot to do with it i think. I know a lot of people who cancelled dropbox then. Conscionable people cannot do business with someone who lied to get the Iraq war started. Also, there's no doubt she has NSA connections being a former national security advisor.