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'SpiderOak uses a new encryption key for each unit of data that is stored, down to the block level,' elaborated Fairless.

SpiderOak also lets users publicly share secure links, which is something also touted by Kim Dotcom's online locker service Mega.

devices handle tasks such as de-duplication and garbage collection.'

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So every device maintains a real-time database of the contents of the full backup set. 'Each device is uploading its changes as they happen, and the metadata portions of each upload are passed to every other device (in their encrypted form, of course). 'The SpiderOak client is really a distributed database application,' he continued. So we have to handle the task where the information is available: on the client.' 'It does not understand their contents or relationships to each other. SpiderOak's other cofounder, Alan Fairless, explained a bit more about the technology behind SpiderOak and how the company manages to keep a user's data secure, even from the company itself: 'The server is just a dumb storage device of sequentially numbered blocks,' he explained. However, SpiderOak's emphasis on security has come at the expense of a bit of usability contrary to Dropbox, getting files stored on the SpiderOak service and synced across different devices isn't seamless out of the box SpiderOak requires a bit of setup to reach the same place that Dropbox and others start out with. So SpiderOak has traditionally appealed to the more security-conscious (or paranoid) user, since data is securely encrypted by the SpiderOak client installed on the user's computer or computers, and its backend treats everything as encrypted blocks, no matter what. It can do this because even though your files are secured and encrypted from access by others, the Dropbox service itself is able to decrypt files in order to ensure it's only storing each unique set of blocks once. Dropbox also encrypts files stored on its service, but it also holds the decryption keys and uses them to perform global single-instancing-that is, if you and your friend both upload a copy of the new Star Trek trailer, Dropbox will save backend storage space by only actually storing the trailer once. SpiderOak has gained a strong following as a more tech-savvy alternative to Dropbox because of its central emphasis on encryption.

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That password is entered by the user into the locally installed SpiderOak client and is never seen by the backend service.

This is done by storing everything on the SpiderOak service as encrypted blocks and ensuring that the decryption keys for those blocks can only themselves be decrypted with the user's password. The idea behind SpiderOak was to create a service with the same type of features as Dropbox but without the ability for anyone other than an account's user to see the unencrypted contents of that user's data store-including SpiderOak itself. I like that you can sync specific subfolders to a computer, but it is more tedious or technical to set up compared to Dropbox.Last year we had a look at SpiderOak, a public cloud service with a focus on security above all else. It works great, and has an optional lifetime purchase plan: You have perpetual use for a one-time payment. But for file sharing it didn't work as well, and our plan didn't allow for enough storage space compared to the other options. It is great for collaborative documents and spreadsheets, and does OK with some other types of projects. Google Drive is another service we used in tandem with the others. Even though it was locally hosted, it was slower than Dropbox. It didn't sync files as well, couldn't preview some file types, and had other technical problems. However, it's UI is clunky compared to Dropbox's.

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Nextcloud is a self-hosted solution, and is the system preferred by our IT department - mainly because it is free or has no annual subscription cost. Of all the options we tried, Dropbox was at the top in terms of performance, reliability, and features. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).

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