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This is very cool.

I usually don't see so much innovation in this market, but this is a very big step forward if compared to the printed tabs spread in my house.

Congrats and keep up the good work!

With a little effort they could use ssh keys instead of passwords...

They should ask users to provide their ssh public keys, and use them to give access to a new provisioned server locking down password-based ssh logins. That's how other players (like AWS) do.

This is basic basic basic security stuff.

That's ok if you application is "standalone", but what happens when your app needs some backend webservice to properly run?

We pay for servers, we can't pirate them. I read articles from developers telling that most of their users are pirates. How could we use this situation to our advantage?

Apple introduced an API to check if the device is jailbroken, but after 6 months removed it without any explanation.

However you can still make some check, like to check if the path /private/var/lib/apt/ exists or not. Since many package managers for cracked apps are apt-based, you should be able to get most of jailbroken devices.

Sadly (afaik), no way to understand if your app on a device has been cracked or purchased.

Hum no. Still having issues with Chrome + OSX.

Check your certificates with "openssl s_client -showcerts -connect www.fluxflex.com:443"

Moreover, even ignoring SSL issues, i get an empty page.

This is a great news, thanks for your efforts on this!

However, it's really sad to have to pay the Microsoft toll over FreeBSD (afaik Windows EC2 Instances are a bit more expensive because the cost of the OS licence is factored into the hourly cost). I hope Amazon will do something about this, like providing HVM-based Unix instances.

I'm definitely the one in the second video. Cool idea! I think a lot of people could use this service.

If you spend so much time, passion and money building a product like Dropbox you will try to defend it from every kind of threat: today the "piracy" topic is a hot one, sounds like its worse than killing someone, and Dropbox is hit by this "piracy" threat. I fully understand and respect Dropbox founders positions, and the DMCA issue is clearly a bug in my opinion (i wouldn't automatically send those kind of communications upon a system-forced file deletion, however).

Automated unit test, BDD and static code analysis

Pretty cool! Is there a way to show the spot instances price too? Maybe some ajax magic?