If developers would start to make their apps "cloud optional", then you could at least choose how your data is shared.
But there is still alternatives out there. You just have to give up the sites and corporations you have gotten used to over the years. Google, Facebook, Microsoft...
Also, if you use Windows, you can pretty much count on it having backdoors already. Thats just my opinion based on common sense. The largest american operating system being free from backdoors? Heh, not very likely. THe NSA could pretty much force them to put it in, and put a gag order on them afterwards. Thats the reality of United States.
Why not? You can store two gigabytes of random noise with Dropbox for free. 5GB worth on Google Drive. Storage locker services don't care if files are encrypted either. I actually can't think of a service that does care.
There is a small perceptible delay when i try to use this(rarely).
That said, their UI is comprehensive feature-wise and not as user friendly as Dropbox UX.
Original promo announce: https://spideroak.com/blog/20110330182326-eric-brian-and-wor...
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