tl;dr from the FAQ:
Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!"
I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!"
I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
> file.io is a project of humb.ly. It was created simply out of the joy of trying to build cool things on the internet, and we thought it may be useful for others. We take privacy very seriously and do not save any data once it has been deleted.
But going to humb.ly still doesn't really get me to trust you, there's not even any identifying info on that page. Two projects, one discontinued and one -- it seems -- novelty "religion".
What I want is some assurance like "The EFF has complete read-access to our platform and maintains a continuous independent audit of these services to verify that we comply with our own privacy assurances." The EFF is probably not the organization to do such a thing, but that's kind of what I'm looking for.
If paranoia is this high, why would a security policy text on a web page make any difference? They could claim anything they want, but you wouldn't have any idea if any actual encryption was happening, so best to do it yourself.
It would be awesome if I could download the file without the password to verify that it's stored encrypted though.
You'll see the POST to the server going up encrypted, and the subsequent GET when you download the file coming down encrypted as a binary XHR.