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From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Thomas Lord <lord@emf.net>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Google Drive
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:48:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D1EA10DD-A620-4C6E-BA02-D3F15F2C17AD@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335892465.2966.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com>

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On May 1, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Thomas Lord wrote:

> Are there any free software packages that 
> provide functionality like DropBox or GoogleDrive?
> Are there any companies that sell the utility
> service of hosting that software, with 
> freedom-respecting terms of service and security
> features such as optional encryption of stored
> data?

I know some people at MIT were working on such a thing, based on SUNDR (paper attached), but I'm far enough out of touch that I couldn't tell you if it was going to go anywhere. That group is pro-free-software, but when I last heard, they were primarily concerned with the (frankly terrible) security implications of DropBox, Box.net, MS SkyDrive, et al.

*Chad


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-01 14:52 Google Drive Paul Michael Reilly
2012-05-01 17:02 ` chad
2012-05-01 17:14   ` Thomas Lord
2012-05-01 17:19     ` Geoffrey Teale
2012-05-01 17:29       ` Thomas Lord
2012-05-01 17:48     ` chad [this message]
2012-05-02  1:13       ` CFP " Thomas Lord
2012-05-02  5:50     ` David Engster
2012-05-02  7:01       ` Lennart Borgman
2012-05-02 15:41     ` Tekk
2012-05-01 17:23   ` Paul Michael Reilly

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