So How Has Dropbox’s Buyback Strategy Fared? A Followup to Our March 2025 Article

Dropbox offers a great product that

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Anfang des Jahres habe ich die Backup-Lösung (Crypted Cloud) von #SpiderOakOne rausgeschmissen, da alles schlechter wurde (Ausfallzeiten, null Infos, Website down, SSL errors).
Der Grund wird augenscheinlich. In einer Mail macht #SpiderOak nun Werbung damit, dass das alte Team zurück sei, einschließlich des Co-Founders, und Alles wird wieder gut und viel toller.

Vielleicht. Aber ohne mich. Zudem ein #Backup-/File-Server in den USA mittlerweile ein grundsätzliches Risiko ist.

#unplugTrump

@peterwyrm There are several "Zero Knowledge" cloud providers that can provide this capability. I'm currently using #Mega - another is #SpiderOak. Everything on their servers is encrypted with a key that only you know.

Basic plan is free but just 20G of storage and throttled bandwidth.

https://mega.io/

MEGA: Protect your Online Privacy

Secure and private cloud storage for everyone. Store and share files, chat, meet, back up, sync, and more.

MEGA

What with all the talk about the UK government insisting on backdoors with Apple storage (which may or may not happen, but anyway) I'm reconsidering why I use Dropbox at all.

It's a handy way of being able to dump content from my phone to my computer. But that's a frankly trivial use. Apart from that it's just backup and not really designed for that anyway tbh. I could use say #Spideroak which is zero knowledge E2E for backup and be safer.

I should fully encrypt my hard drive first though :/

SpiderOak announces open-source initiative for zero-trust cybersecurity 

Technology manufacturers will be able to embed security features into their own systems

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An update on my #SpiderOak problems: the whole thing shit the bed while I was trying to troubleshoot it. Eventually I found a bunch of related OOM killer messages, checked my swap space, increased it by 4GB, then boom, SpiderOakONE is working again... for now.

@syntaxseed Oh geez, what a mess!

I've mostly stuck to #SpiderOak because I like that zero knowledge encryption is the default. I didn't think that #iDrive offers that level of encryption, but maybe that's what they mean by private key encryption? https://www.idrive.com/online-backup-security

IDrive® ensures strong security and privacy

Data is encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption on transfer and storage, with a private key option for improved security.

@jackaponte 100%. In fact I found it to be so unresponsive even when it does launch that I was miles away from feeling like I can trust it to even backup my data. Not to mention that the web dashboard barely works and is very hidden on the #SpiderOak website. I also had problems getting it to take my payment. All signs of a product the company doesn't want to support anymore.

I switched to #iDrive after evaluating several options.

Speaking of which, do other #Ubuntu #Linux #SpiderOak users find the app to be terribly slow and crashy?
Bye bye #spideroak. I just can't trust you folks any more. An upgrade shouldn't knock out my off-site backups for months. (And also *still* no 2FA on accounts? Really? 🤨)