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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Microsoft is smart to build their own Outlook killer, and they certainly succeeded in freaking Slack out[1]. We (SpiderOak) evaluated teams as competitive research when building Semaphor [2] (our own end-to-end encrypted alternative to Sla
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   SpiderOak can backup and sync arbitrary folders (including external drives, network volumes, etc.) So one migration path is just to select the Dropbox folder for backup by SpiderOak. (Or just move data from Dropbox folder to the SpiderOak
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thank you for your interest in SpiderOak and valuing work to improve the choices available that preserve privacy. For what it's worth, everything we've built since 2008 has published source code. Most recently that's Semapho
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Great question. The database work is all done client side. Here's an explanation of the architecture I wrote in 2009: https://spideroak.com/articles/why--how-spideroak-architectu...
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thanks for asking! I'm really excited about a ZK note app! We haven't yet determined the priority of this vs. other projects in 2017. If you haven't already, please signal your interest below[1]. So far it is a prototype, a
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thanks for your feedback. Just as a data point for comparison, Dropbox charges $100/year for 1000 GB, but they don't do meaningful encryption, and therefore can de-duplicate your files vs. the files of all their other customers, w
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thanks for jumping in with suggestions. It's actually a harder problem than it seems! I have a feeling "provider-obscured" and "homomorphic" (while accurate!) are significantly less accessible to end users. I&#x2
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thank you. I'm all for switching if we can find a phrase that's accessible to non technical people. Ideally it would be a phrase that's adopted by many sites, the press, etc. (as Zero Knowledge has been, for better or worse.)
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   by rarrrrrr 10y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. Sorry it didn't work out for you. FYI, the SpiderOakONE app and the backend storage service received a refresh in 2016, and another one is underway right now (now all needed libraries are Python3 compatible!)
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. For what it's worth, we did try a bunch of alternative wordings, and Zero Knowledge was the phrase that non technologists found most accessible. We prioritized making the explanation clear to non-experts vs. t
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    It's mostly that the desktop app is Python and C, and there wasn't a clear path to make that same code base run on mobile, so the mobile app is just a reader. However for Semaphor, our encrypted group chat and file sharing tool (a
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    SpiderOak founder here... A few cryptographers have noticed SpiderOak's marketing term Zero Knowledge is inconsistent with the academic definition. Maybe it doesn't mean what we think it means[1]? SpiderOak was one of the first
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    If you're being proactive about it, one approach is to create "canary" accounts: single purpose email addresses that signup for your service and nothing else. When those email addresses start getting spam, it's a strong
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    Slack's “Morning After”(medium.com)

    4 points by rarrrrrr 10y ago|0 comments
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Not sure just what you're looking for, but SpiderOak's Semaphor is a desktop/mobile end-to-end-encrypted Slack alternative where the presentation layer is React, and the client side app backend (networking, crypto, database)
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    This is a fair question. I'm somewhat to blame for contributing to it over the last 10 years via SpiderOak. There are very good reasons though, and it's probably time I made a post about it.
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    SpiderOak might be interested in running a Roughtime service / participating in a Roughtime community to support Semaphor. As it is, Semaphor clients include a local timestamp among the signed content of most actions, and the server re
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    > "we encrypt all of your chats so even we cannot tell what you're talking about." FWIW, the bit about end to end encryption (including channel names, attachment meta data, etc.) and being created by an established company
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Your "temporary" criteria is not yet available in the 1.0.x version of Semaphor, but the very near term roadmap includes retention policy per channel/conversation, with settings like "N days" and/or "N mes
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Sorry! Ironically (since we're using Google's Golang) Android has been the hardest platform for us to finish. We've got Mac, iOS, Linux, and Windows now, and are running Android internally but it's not release ready ye
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Thanks for taking a look and for your feedback! Do you have any recommendations for us for alternative pricing? One of the things we tried to accommodate is that teams can be paid for by the individual members instead of one entity having
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Great question! We really wanted to use the pure go implementation, but it doesn't cover as much functionality. Detached signatures for example.
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Thanks for your interest in Semaphor! FYI, Today is an early access preview. iOS, Android, Linux, and Windows coming very soon; we built mobile first and are running all of the above internally. Cheers!
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    (I didn't submit this, but thanks to the OP! This is an early access preview... General availability is very soon) 10 years ago SpiderOak made a zero-knowledge cloud storage product which is now called SpiderOakONE and is comparable t
25. 55.▲
    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    ... easter egg. I'm not _quite_ that fast. Dvorak keyboard FTW. :)
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    There's quite a bit more info here: https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor/tour
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Good guess. We were thinking of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore Semaphoric patterns are used in the application as a more visually appealing means of peer key verification, device provisioning, etc
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    That was true for a long time, but newer sqlite can do table level locking when in shared cache mode. Section 2.2 here: https://www.sqlite.org/sharedcache.html
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Thank you! We'll take a look. By the way: I recognized your nick from various repos you've authored/contributed to. Always really solid stuff!
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    by rarrrrrr 10y ago

    Thank you for your interest and efforts to contribute to the project. I think there were some questions about your patch that you did not answer, and reviewers moved to other projects. Honestly we felt overall the patch was low quality. C