Re:Ziptr to Discontinue Services
by notwhyships on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @07:45PM
(#6441635)
"You need to export all of your data from your Ziptr account by 12:00 noon Eastern on Friday, September 27, 2013. After this time, we cannot guarantee access to your data."
http://www.ziptr.com/ziptr-closing-92713
That though from Ziptr's 9/24 blog post is unusual: both the ridiculously short time period of 3 days, and the phrase "cannot guarantee."
Also, I find it hard to believe that such a serious serial entrepreneur with such significant backing (approx. $7M) would close up shop so suddenly and unprofessionally. Why burn bridges like this?
That's also what you'd write if your enterprise software company was betting on last minute hail-marys to keep the lights on, didn't want to admit the bind they were in, and literally ran completely out of money.
Also, if they were concerned about complying with an NSL, why would they offer even 3 days? During those three days, their users would all be surveilled as they pulled their data off the site.
Do any of you guys have infos on what crypto they used and how?
I've never heard about Ziptr.
Re:Ziptr to Discontinue Services
by notwhyships on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @08:17PM
(#6441798)
Pretty cursory:
Bhathena and other Ziptr staff did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
This doesn't sound a whole lot different from any other un-graceful startup shutdowns. Did this service have a lot of users?
Also, is the characterization of Ziptr as an "encryption provider" accurate? Or were they just a secure document storage company? There are a lot of companies that do "document encryption" and "email encryption" for enterprises that are not, as HN privacy enthusiasts understand the term, really crypto products.