Snowden Meets the IETF

Re:Snowden Meets the IETF by MichaelGG on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @06:45PM (#9932851)

Dropbox isn't audited. They have a poor track record for security (lying about internal access then trying to downplay). So even if you encrypt with truecrypt, you're running the Dropbox binary for uploading, and it can do anything - in short, you're trusting them.

I've not found an open source tool that does block level backups with diff/compression support. Getting the client experience right is hard and not a whole lot of fun, so I'm guessing there's little incentive for companies to open source that valuable part.

Thanks for the info on Erlang.

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Re:Snowden Meets the IETF by pjc50 on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:05PM (#9932944)

I keep a list of cloud sync solutions I've looked at for a similar use case: https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-...

I'm still not quite satisfied either.

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Re:Snowden Meets the IETF by simoncion on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @07:21PM (#9933013)

Oh! You were looking for audited sync clients.

Yeah, I've got nothing there.

Edit: I would ask "How hard could it be to solve 90% of the problem?", but various BigCos have had spectacular failures in recent memory, so I guess the problem is pretty damn hard.

I wonder how terrible using git as the backbone for one's sync software would be.

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Re:Snowden Meets the IETF by pjc50 on Thursday July 23, 2015 @03:03AM (#9934380)

There's git-annex for that. I've not tried it myself.

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Re:Snowden Meets the IETF by simoncion on Sunday July 26, 2015 @12:03AM (#9950103)

I had heard about git-annex before, but never had looked into it. This sounds pretty neat! I wonder what its horrifying data-eating failure modes are! :D

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