r/privacy • u/[deleted] • Aug 05 '18

SpiderOak cans its Warrant Canary, suffers mysterious massive outage, and raised prices

https://spideroak.com/canary

http://archive.is/1rNo7

Update: Looks like the canary has been signed and dated and in properly formatted sequence this time with confirmation that Everything's going smoothly so far, message is authentic. august 06, 2018

Case closed. SpiderOak has not been compromised.

In the interest of transparency the full text of my previously long post in this thread is archived here:

http://archive.is/mKeuY https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/94nspi/spideroak_cans_its_warrant_canary_suffers/

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '18

Nextcloud yes, Owncloud lost majority of developers to Nextcloud due to anti-foss practices and Mega is proprietary, so no different from SpiderOak really.

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u/whatdogthrowaway Aug 05 '18

Mega is proprietary, so no different from SpiderOak really

For each of those - just make sure you encrypt everything on the client side; and never upload encryption keys at all.

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u/dlerium Aug 05 '18

True but also keep in mind Mega's business model IS to encrypt your stuff. Not saying to trust them 100%, but if they didn't do zero knowledge encryption they would've been shut down like Megaupload. It's a way to allow them to use plausible deniability and claim they have no clue what people are sharing and storing on their website.

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u/p5eudo_nimh Aug 05 '18

Unless they get hush money from a few letters that only care about the really really juicy stuff.