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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. Still a single vendor by Smidge204 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Even though you don't want to tie yourself to a single vendor, that's still exactly what you're doing.

    Just ask yourself: If Wuala goes under, how will you get your data back?

    It doesn't sound like their client application does all the distribution itself, but rather everything is funneled to and from a central server that tracks the scattered data and makes sure enough mirrors are maintained for reliability.
    =Smidge=