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Not only insurance companies, but many others.

Airlines do it too. One dark pattern I experienced during Covid was that the airline call system was automatically set to hang up after 30 minutes. If you were lucky you'd get to speak to a representative at around minute 25, but never get your ticket rebooked.

We use Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) to do end-to-end Google Drive encryption.

The keys stay on the client. It is secure, but means the files are only decryptable on the client, so keys need to be shared manually. I guess security means extra hassle.

It is a pity it does not apply in Australia. They search 40,000 devices a year there, and consfiscate your device if you refuse.
Re:Ask HN: What was the outcome of Reddit blackout? on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:54AM (#38429053)
Many of the technical and science stuff is still pretty good. Not like it used to be, but it's a recurring theme, when the Internet expanded, UseNet also became rubbish, "infested by AOL'ers and spam" was the complaint in 1996.
Re:Google Drive has lost user data on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:25AM (#38428881)
You can use Rsync to copy everything from Google Drive as a cron job. If you want copies of your Google Docs and Sheets you'll need something like SyncDocs to download and convert them to MS Office format.
And while they've got your device, in Australia, the government can legally install rootkits on your phone or laptop without informing you.
OK, I will so in future.

I tried to summarize the article in the title. Will follow the guidelines from now on.

There are quite a few clients for Linux, I use Syncdocs https://www.syncdocs.com/ as it has built in encryption.

Non I've seen do a proper job of mounting as a drive, NFS or SMB would be nice.

Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @07:45PM (#31009589)
Ah world.std.com, the first ever ISP.
Re:WireGuard multihop available in the Mullvad app on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @03:33PM (#31007250)
The Mullvad app is huge ~100MB which is odd for what it needs to do.
Unless it happens on the backend - which is what the article appears to say.

I'm on Linux with Syncdocs for syncing Google Drive so will wait and see how it handles things.

Yes, it's odd, that a driver which should be small enough to fit in kernel memory comes in such a package (for Windows at least) that is a few hundred mega-bytes.
Re:Phantom OS on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:05PM (#30816489)
Re:Vanced has been discontinued on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:11PM (#30666708)
For those who have the ability to do so, please make an Archive of all the Vanced Versions before the download links are taken down

https://mirror.codebucket.de/vanced/

Syncdocs is also an easy end-to-end encryption/sync app for Google Drive

https://syncdocs.com

You can encrypt stuff to Google Drive. You can sync a Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/) folder or use something like Syncdocs (https://syncdocs.com) that does the encryption/decryption automatically.

Do Google Drive Terms now prohibit encryption?

Re:Google Workspace for everyone on Monday June 14, 2021 @03:31PM (#27507119)
We're forced to used GSuite. I find https://syncdocs.com useful - it lets me collaborate using MS Office on top of GSuite

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