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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 20 points 11 months ago

I'll throw out my usual plug for Cryptomator, lets me use Dropbox's free offering and they can't datamine a thing because it's encrypted before they get their grubby mitts on it

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

This looks awesome and very useful. Thank you for sharing it here!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

FYI the desktop version is completely free to use and relies on the desktop sync apps of the various cloud storage providers, the android version does cost about £8 but I believe it hooks directly into the providers' APIs so you don't need to install their apps. The free experience was good enough for me that I was willing to fork out for the app, much cheaper in the long run than paying a monthly sub!

[-] myofficialaccount@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

It's awesome! I'm running this since years without any problems.

[-] explodicle@local106.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tomorrow's news: "Find out how - amazingly - ML models can break encryption with this one simple trick! NP hates it!"

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

True, the safest data is the one that never goes online! But realistically it's a tradeoff between risk and convenience - you can self host your own off-site backup but it's a lot less effort to use a cloud storage provider, both are much less risky than having no backup and losing everything if your drive fails or your house burns down. At least this way I need the provider or my PC to be compromised and the encryption to be broken. TBH if quantum computing suddenly starts breaking encryption everywhere then we'll all have bigger problems like the collapse of every bank in the world!

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