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You really think any other US-jurisdiction-based provider is safer?
by AceJohnny2 11y ago
You really think any other US-jurisdiction-based provider is safer?
- pekk 11y agoIn terms of this one concern, more obscure services probably are safer than one which is so overwhelmingly popular, and it makes a difference if the service does not have your data in plaintext. Of course it's easy to give up other kinds of security in exchange for reduced profile to NSA, that's a whole other issue.
- lfam 11y agoAre Syncthing or Tarsnap US-based? No. And Syncthing is just a tool that does multi-way sync across devices you own. If a company wanted to replace Dropbox with Syncthing, they would have to run one or more servers to provide the "always on" feature that their employees' "sometimes on" laptops sync to.
- cperciva 11y agoLeaving aside the fact that Tarsnap is based in Canada (since really, I doubt CSIS has any more qualms about asking for data than the NSA does), the whole point of Tarsnap is that I can't reveal customer data because -- unlike Dropbox -- data stored using Tarsnap is encrypted using keys which only the customer holds.