[liberationtech] Secure alternatives to Dropbox?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On 08/14/2013 05:56 PM, Bernard Tyers - ei8fdb wrote:
> 
> On 14 Aug 2013, at 22:09, Nathan of Guardian <nathan at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>> On 08/14/2013 05:01 PM, Web Admin wrote:
>>> Are there oher services to consider?
>>
>> We (the Guardian Project) are happily using SparkleShare. Credit to the
>> Commotion/OTI team for introducing us to it, and for Hans-Christoph on
>> our team for getting it running.
> 
> Damn, another thing to look at.. :)

In case you tried SparkleShare before the latest v1.1.0 release, my tor fix
was only added in v1.1.0.  In order to use a Tor Hidden Service as your
SparkleShare server, you have to setup your ~/.ssh/config to work with .onion
addresses, then SparkleShare will use that config.

Mine looks something like this:

Host fakename.onion
     User hans
     Hostname fakeonionaddress.onion
     HostKeyAlias fakeonionaddress.onion
     Compression yes
     PasswordAuthentication no
     ProxyCommand connect -R remote -5 -S 127.0.0.1:9050 %h %p



>> We still have some internal culture and workflow issues to solve (i.e.
>> Dropbox is still ingrained in the brain), but technically and
>> product-wise it is all there.
> 
> 
> This is the issue. Dropboxs work really well. And now that *everyone* knows how it works, people have an expectation that all services should work in the same way.
> 
> I have tried to use Spideroak, but it doesn't work in the same way as Dropbox.

SparkleShare works very similarly to Dropbox, but its a program developed by
one person in his spare time, so its not as smooth as Dropbox.  If you give it
breathing room and be a little patient with SparkleShare, its the same as Dropbox.

.hc

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