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Online Storage With a Twist

Posted by timothy on from the wiseacres-will-volunteer-to-store-porn dept.

mssmss writes "For a long time, I have been looking for a way to securely store my files online without being tied to a single vendor — whose survival my storage depends on. It looks like Wuala has a way to do this, according to this story in the Economist. They use donated disk space of users to scatter your encrypted files over multiple computers."

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  1. Dupe by AsciiNaut · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=957645&cid=24930055

  2. Microsoft Mesh by MrMoDoJoJr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've been using windows live mesh (www.mesh.com) to achieve this. I have my work machine and my home machine setup to synchronise files. This way I always have two copies of the files on two machines, with a third copy stored online. My wedding photos might actually be safe now.

  3. Spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Spam