[PLUG-TALK] Alternatives to various "Cloud" file sharing services?

James Bertelson James at bertelson.me
Sun Jan 27 06:20:25 UTC 2013


On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:58 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:51:44 -0800 (PST)
> Gregory Salter <winterbeastie at yahoo.com> dijo:
>
> >What box are you talking about? You mention it several times with no
> >context clues. Gregory
>
> Box is a web site, a commercial alternative to Dropbox. I would
> capitalize Box, as it is the name of a service.
>
> When I got my latest Android phone I got a free 50 GB Box account. I
> think I have uploaded 50 MB so far.
>
>
Usually it's referred to as 'box.net' just to avoid this kind of confusion.

I'll also throw a suggestion out there for Spideroak.  Fantastic service,
you hold the encryption keys so they're literally zero-knowledge.  Great if
you need a 'trust-no-one' cloud storage provider.

--
  James Bertelson
  james at bertelson.me
  :wq
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