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Cool piece. Looks like he's having a good time. How is Mega? I haven't tried it out yet. Is it worth checking out?

The only thing that's stopping me from completely switching over from Dropbox (I use Google Drive a bit too, but mainly for Docs) is the lack of a Sync client. They're beta testing it at the moment, but its still a little buggy and time limited. Apart from that though, it's a fantastic service. The web app is speedy, download times are great, and with the encryption I'm a lot more comfortable storing private docs than I would be on Dropbox.

The Android app does photo backup too, which is one of the main things I currently use Dropbox for.

> The web app is speedy, download times are great, and with the encryption I'm a lot more comfortable storing private docs than I would be on Dropbox.

You shouldn't be. Their "encryption" does little more than provide them a way of saying "We can't comply with your subpoena because we don't have the user's key!"

Granted, Dropbox's security is pretty laughable too.

Your best option is probably to store e.g. a TrueCrypt container in either service. (Dropbox will only sync the parts of the file that change, so there's that. Pretty helpful if you've got a 1-2GB TrueCrypt container.)

Oh, I'm well aware that's their intention, it's really saying more about Dropbox and the like. It's still cloud storage so I wouldn't store anything incredibly sensitive on there, and you do need to install the browser plugin for the security not to be completely laughable, but it's still a lot more usable than TrueCrypt for day-to-day stuff imo.

It's quite fast. I use it fairly regularly to transfer (business related) files between remote servers at high speeds.

Have you tried using BTSync?

No I have not. I became disenchanted with the BitTorrent corporation after I realized there were other, free and open torrent clients available many years ago.

One can assume that more free and open BTSync clients will appear in the coming years, at which point I will probably check it out.

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