Skydrive free allowance slashed to 7GB

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:36

oh transforms have started

theheyes · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:38

I wish there were an option to encrypt, I'd use it all the time then.

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:43

theheyes said:
I wish there were an option to encrypt, I'd use it all the time then.

Which one do you use then?

theheyes · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:46

I don't use any, that's the point.

Well, I don't in the sense of a cloud service - I use a bitlocker USB stick instead. What I'm saying is if the option was there I'd probably use it a lot.

MikeHunt79 · 23 Apr 2012 at 23:55

theheyes said:
I wish there were an option to encrypt, I'd use it all the time then.

Try this:

http://getsecretsync.com/

Deleted member 77746 · 24 Apr 2012 at 00:00

theheyes said:
I don't use any, that's the point.

Well, I don't in the sense of a cloud service - I use a bitlocker USB stick instead. What I'm saying is if the option was there I'd probably use it a lot.

You must be storing very important documents on there huh?

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 02:25

Opted in, not like I use SkyDrive, but nice to know the space is there if I need it!

Got 50GB with Box.net from getting a TouchPad as well which I don't use either!

Fillado · 24 Apr 2012 at 12:44

theheyes said:
I don't use any, that's the point.

Well, I don't in the sense of a cloud service - I use a bitlocker USB stick instead. What I'm saying is if the option was there I'd probably use it a lot.

It'll never come along on popular services because it is purely an overzealous nerd/if you *really* have something to hide pursuit.

Most people want to have a backup online that they can then use to share certain files with other people/view photos in a nice web interface/have a web interface/integrate with other services by that storage provider/view on a mobile device/etc.

All that means the files need to be "viewable" by Apple/Microsoft/Google/Dropbox.

SpiderOak does offer full encryption...

marc2003 · 24 Apr 2012 at 12:47

15GB uploaded so far.

CaptainCrash · 24 Apr 2012 at 13:02

Fillado said:
It'll never come along on popular services because it is purely an overzealous nerd/if you *really* have something to hide pursuit...

SpiderOak does offer full encryption...

Last time I tried SpiderOak, it was hopelessly slow and unreliable, with a steaming turd of a desktop client. Wuala on the other hand is rather nice... shame they got rid of the diskspace-trading option, although I suppose it was never going to be a realistic model in practice.

As regards encryption generally, it's not so much that I have anything specific to hide (apart from banking and other financial data); I just don't like the idea that strangers *could* go poking through my private stuff as and when they felt like it, even if they're unlikely to actually do so.

I think privacy is a pretty basic human need, it's why most of us have curtains in our windows... and I've never liked the "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" argument, it's a slippery slope towards dictatorship /tinfoilhat.

Azza · 24 Apr 2012 at 15:14

marc2003 said:
15GB uploaded so far.

What have you been uploading?!

imb4tman · 24 Apr 2012 at 15:19

Thanks for the heads up. I use Skydrive as my phones photo backup. It might have taken quite a while to get to 7GB but it saves having to pay.

theheyes · 24 Apr 2012 at 16:27

In regards to the encryption, for my usage it's nothing incriminating nor a matter of national security (I wish it was that glamorous) just plain old work policy.

marc2003 · 24 Apr 2012 at 16:50

Azza said:
What have you been uploading?!

nothing exciting - just music. there's no way i'm putting my midget donkey porn in the cloud.