[wplug] Open-source cloud storage solutions

[Justin Smith]

IMO, nobody should use Dropbox, Google Drive, or any other cloud storage 
service that doesn't offer client-side encryption. Putting a file on Dropbox 
is like inviting Dropbox employees, the NSA, and anybody else who can 
wield a court order to look at what you're storing. It's none of their 
business. 

Mega[1] offers 50GB of free storage with client-side encryption. It doesn't 
have a Linux sync client just yet, but it does have a pretty snappy Web 
interface and Android app. Is it as secure as something you operate 
yourself? Probably not, but I do think it's better than conventional 
providers, so it's my standard recommendation for someone who wants a 
service that "just works."

I mean, when you sign up for an account, you play a game where you 
destroy the letters "NSA" in order to generate entropy. That counts for 
something, right?

ownCloud is okay if you're aware of its limitations. It can be finicky, difficult 
to configure, and its development, if you can call it that, moves at a glacial 
pace. Most of its features are half-complete or half-assed. Despite all 
those shortcomings, I still haven't found anything better for open source 
file sync, contacts, and calendar services, so I continue to make due with 
it.

-- 
*Justin Smith*
GNU/Linux System Administrator

/"Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us 
communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where 
they allow only monopoly."/
/-Richard Stallman/


> Looking for recommendations for people's favorites....  Dropbox is on my
> last nerve, after my "promotional" extra 23 GB of space expired, and
> apparently the lowest-end plan that they will sell me is 100 GB (I never
> got even remotely close to the 23 GB, so that is way overkill...), and
> they want about the same amount of money as it would cost to have a
> whole VPS on Linode....
> 
> My basic requirements are that it has to have a web interface for
> uploading/downloading files, has to have a client to automagically sync
> files on Windows (and Linux if possible), and I'd like something with an
> Android app as well.  I'm aware of ownCloud, and it appears that it
> would do what I want, so I'm considering using that - just looking for
> any "dissenting opinions" or other possibilities.
> 
> --Pat.
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[1] https://mega.co.nz