<story><title>PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution</title><url>https://leastauthority.com/blog/least-authority-and-private-internet-access-announce-privatestorage-io-a-secure-and-privacy-focused-cloud-storage-solution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moviuro</author><text>So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep.&lt;p&gt;Sounds risky.&lt;p&gt;Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably &lt;i&gt;à la&lt;/i&gt; filecoin? [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;filecoin.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;filecoin.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.</text></item><item><author>moviuro</author><text>FWIW, I&amp;#x27;ve been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it&amp;#x27;s synced on my &amp;quot;fleet&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation?&lt;p&gt;EDIT&amp;gt; The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.&lt;p&gt;So syncthing actually only runs on trusted machines, whereas PrivateStorage will be able to run on both trusted (tightly managed) and untrusted machines (like a VPS in the USA).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syncthing.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syncthing.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;try.popho.be&amp;#x2F;byeunison.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;try.popho.be&amp;#x2F;byeunison.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&amp;#x2F;trac&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&amp;#x2F;trac&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rakoo</author><text>I trust S3, B2 Google&amp;#x27;s blobstore more than some rando&amp;#x27;s machine who runs filecoin. Tahoe-LAFS gives you the assurance that the actual backend storage only sees encrypted data. The big clouds have this advantage that they are probably more reliable, faster, have lower latency, better uptime, and lower price.</text></comment>
<story><title>PrivateStorage.io: A secure and privacy-focused cloud storage solution</title><url>https://leastauthority.com/blog/least-authority-and-private-internet-access-announce-privatestorage-io-a-secure-and-privacy-focused-cloud-storage-solution/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>moviuro</author><text>So you share your data on untrusted machines that you bet will live long enough to hold what you want to keep.&lt;p&gt;Sounds risky.&lt;p&gt;Do storage providers have an incentive to provide the service reliably &lt;i&gt;à la&lt;/i&gt; filecoin? [0]&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;filecoin.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;filecoin.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>zorked</author><text>A big thing is that Tahoe LAFS can be run on untrusted computers.</text></item><item><author>moviuro</author><text>FWIW, I&amp;#x27;ve been using syncthing [0] for some years now [1] and am very pleased. Even though my data is unavailable on the cloud from any untrusted computer (like e.g. my corporate laptop), it&amp;#x27;s synced on my &amp;quot;fleet&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure that PrivateStorage actually adds anything to the equation?&lt;p&gt;EDIT&amp;gt; The Tahoe LAFS [2] model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.&lt;p&gt;So syncthing actually only runs on trusted machines, whereas PrivateStorage will be able to run on both trusted (tightly managed) and untrusted machines (like a VPS in the USA).&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syncthing.net&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;syncthing.net&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;try.popho.be&amp;#x2F;byeunison.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;try.popho.be&amp;#x2F;byeunison.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&amp;#x2F;trac&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs.org&amp;#x2F;trac&amp;#x2F;tahoe-lafs&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zorked</author><text>The Tahoe LAFS model is more that you spread your data over multiple providers. NAS at home, several VPS providers, or what have you. It feels like RAID in the network, and it allows very precise setting of redundancy policies.</text></comment>