gballard

I don't know much about Bytejail or their offering; but I'd say one major, non-technical difference is that Bytejail is a German company with servers located entirely outside of the US. In theory, this makes search-and-seizure of customer data subject to German statutes, which are currently much stronger than US law in terms of privacy.

Take a look at SpiderOak's privacy policy, under the "Disclosure" section (https://spideroak.com/policy/privacy-policy):

>SpiderOak's policy is to notify a user of a request for their personal data stored on our servers prior to disclosure unless prohibited from doing so by statute or court order [e.g. U.S.C. § 2705(b)].

That would be NSLs.

<sigh> Depressing how little has changed in the policy debate, but does give me the opportunity to pull this out of storage:

http://i.imgur.com/Plzevno.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KlnsFJX.jpg

Crystal Quest! You're killing me...so many hours of my youth. Gone. ;-)

You can definitely take issue with his cantankerous and opinionated views on open access to information; but Dave Winer as "hipster-ish"?! That made me spit-take coffee all over my keyboard...

JasonCEC -- Just a question about the tasting protocols: where does the sampling and tasting take place? Is it local to the brewery and/or distribution areas?

Really fantastic idea and looks like a great implementation!