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Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down
New submitter craigtp writes: Wuala, one of the more trusted cloud-storage services that employed encryption for your files, is shutting down. Users of the service will have until 15th November 2015 to move all of their files off the service before all of their data is deleted. From the announcement: "Customers who have an active prepaid annual subscription will be eligible to receive a refund for any unused subscription fees. Your refund will be calculated based on a termination date effective from today’s date, even though the full service will remain active until 30 September 2015 and your data will be available until 15 November 2015. Refunds will be automatically processed and issued to eligible customers in coming weeks. Some exceptions apply. Please visit www.wuala.com for more information."
Who said it was? In this case you paid for space, and you got it. They are closing down and you get your files back AND a refund. I see no issue here. no different than if you had your crap in a storage unit and they decided to close down mid contract.
This is how a business runs, and when it closes, how it properly closes.
You can't be certain that's true. It could look the same way whether it was NSA action or not. That's what an NSL is intended to ensure.
So it's quite reasonable to assume that this is NSA action, but don't be close minded about it. There could be other reasons.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Your rational, sober, succinct and to the point comments have no place here. Or pretty much anywhere else on the internet. Or television. Or talk radio. Definitely not talk radio.
Lol. Yes. I'm sure the NSA just _hates_ the idea of people uploading stuff to a central location they think is encrypted with 100% security.
Bollocks. The NSA would prefer a service like this they can get to to people just encrypting stuff on flash drives.
It's called 'the hard drive in the computer on my desk'.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
I'm sorry they're shutting down. At least they're giving their users some notice, which is good.
I suspect there's a niche market in encrypted storage online that would be marketed as (supposedly) "NSA proof", if such a thing is even possible. I suspect that the current reach of the NSA is for all intents and purposes unlimited in the US. I doubt there's much they couldn't get into if they wanted to.
I mean, we know that Wall Street has been thoroughly and utterly penetrated and is basically the plaything of corporations and financial houses.Add in the activity by blackhats ripping off whatever they can from the major brokerage houses and Wall Street is a joke in terms of any fairness.
Given that, is it so far-fetched to surmise that the NSA has managed to get it's taps into virtually every communication medium we use? (Especially after the recent revelations about AT&T being in cahoots with the NSA.) At this point I'd be more surprised if they didn't have everything tapped.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
afaik, they're swiss. not the parent company (lacie) or the parent's parent company (seagate) but wuala itself was incorporated in switzerland to give it some protection from NSA's claws. I think they simply priced themselves out of the market. I used to recommend them (their free tier was great) when ubuntuONE shut down but when they went for paid only accounts, the price was just too high compared to competition.