Looking for easier/better alternatives than doing Nextcloud, ownCloud, etc.
Other content, private but not sensitive, like holidays photos, can be stored and decrypted remotely and it's a good practice to use encrypted partitions by default. I don't believe Hetzner would do any of the grey things that Google, Facebook and now Apple are doing (i.e. actively scanning your data for advertising and other purposes), but there is a practical problem of broken hard drives - it doesn't matter if it breaks in your place or at a hosting provider, you have a hard drive that is broken but you can't remove your data from easily, but someone else might. I estimate the probability is extremely low, but there is very little downside and effort required to encrypt data partitions nowadays, so I don't see why I shouldn't do that.
As for the interception of data in transit, nowadays everybody is using TLS for everything, so I don't think it's an issue.
* it's intuitive to use, so people who haven't seen it can quickly download what you send them without having to log in, being tracked and so on.
* password protection and expiry date for shared links come in handy
* superfast search is a boon for me as I have so many files it's probably the most important aspect
* the photos app in Next/ownCloud is underperforming if you have a large number of photos in a folder - the thumbnails seem to be generated each time I open the folder, it's probably a bug.
* when you need to collaborate, it's supereasy to add users and they intuitively know how to do things as they're used to Dropbox etc.
[0] https://mega.nz/
While KimDotCom is an impressive hacker, I am not sure that I would love to be the target of the FEDs around the world as he is still in the eye of the US.
Fun story about MegaUpload.
I once lived in Argentina back in the MegaUpload days. At the time, piracy was the norm (not only in Argentina), the gov didn't care, and people where selling pirated, burned DVD on the streets. This was a downtown, a high transited area.
Then MegaUpload started to grow like fire, and I remember that starting at 4 pm, the internet would get awfully slow. As people get off their jobs to download the latest movie or episode out there. Then PopcornTime, and things got even worst. Cant find the stat, but I remember something along the line of 60% of Buenos Aires traffic being MegaUpload's at peak time (4-10pm), which caused a lot of controversy at the time.
Old days...
Here in New Zealand we are only just finishing tidying up the fallout from the Dotcom fiasco now. Shame on us.
Ehh idk seems like a dumb concern/losing battle. My thing is about IP. I picked up this e-ink tablet and it syncs to their cloud service for example. Which you can stop but still... Ahh. Just feels like going in circles, ISP knows your content, VPN, is your device actually secure, etc... Do you have anything to hide anyway.
I'm probably just paranoid ha I question using Trello putting "new IP" into it which they say is encrypted at rest so yeah. Gmail too like everything goes through that.
Anyway I'm average intelligence not developing cold fusion or something on my spare time so I don't really have IP anyway.
Here's an idea, a piece of paper and a pencil.
I'm still waiting for it to suffer the same fate as MegaUpload. The reputation has the service tarnished. I don't care that everything's encrypted with Mega - They could still sneak in backdoors or skeleton keys. Plus it needs Javascript to work, which is a privacy nightmare.
If you do, however, set up a server, you can centralize your data and easily run all the backup jobs from it.
Doesn't look like it's available as a paid service, unfortunately.
Hopefully soon!!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/foss-mobile-app-stin...
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...
The client apps and the user interface are super boomer friendly.
The iOS client is excellent but to be totally transparent sometimes the app does need to be opened to make sure the photo sync happens.
One at home, one at office and one on key chain.
Cheap, secure, highly available and offline.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...
It may not have the same integration options but it's better than the alternatives.
My "boomer" group have Google devices, so once they auth to my service I can pull their photo albums for import.
But is the real-world instance of CSAM so high that every photo on every phone that is shared with another human needs to be scanned for it? It seems like there is no tradeoff too big to not be taken in the quest to eradicate CSAM.
Are the resources spent really proportional to the threat?
Emails reveal during the Apple vs Epic trial revealed that Apple store apps were infected, then Apple prepared an email for the users to inform them but Timmy decided that informing the users about possible security or privacy problems is bad for PR. We need to keep reminding or informing people about the reality and not the myth of Apple.
Yes I know you use Apple because Google shit is probably worse but Apple shit is still shit, Apple hypocrisy is still hypocrisy and Apple greed is still greed.
I realize this does not meet your criteria of privacy conscious but does meet boomer friendly. Sorry
Not only that, it commits a felony when it transmits found CSAM to a party other than NCMEC (i.e. Apple itself).
