[liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

[mark burdett]

I finally tried Bittorrent Sync this week and it seems to work quite nicely
for serverless file-sharing (mostly, as there is a server fallback to get
around firewalls). Too bad it's not FLOSS so I can't actually recommend it
:/

--mark B.
On Aug 14, 2013 2:42 PM, "elijah" <elijah at riseup.net> wrote:

> On 08/14/2013 02:01 PM, Web Admin wrote:
>
> > It would be good to be able to advise folks on more secure alternatives,
> if they exist.
>
> free software:
>
> * http://seafile.com
> * http://sparkleshare.org
>
> proprietary:
>
> * https://wuala.com
> * https://spideroak.com
> * http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html (BitTorrent Sync)
>
> As mentioned previously, sparkleshare requires you find a git host. Of
> the bunch, Wuala is by far the most powerful and friendly. The spideroak
> UI is odd, and there is also the mysterious change in how spideroak says
> they handle passwords. Seafile seems very promising. The other free
> software contender, Syncany, appears long defunct. BitTorrent Sync is
> server-less.
>
> -elijah
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