shell account and storage space
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Anyone know of a company whose values are consistent with Trisquel/FSF ideals that offer shell accounts along with storage space. I left Dropbox and replaced it with some scripting based on duplicity. Or perhaps other suggestions where I could store about 2GB online?
It's completely irrelevant which ideals your storage provider has since you can't verify whether he fools you or not.
The only sensible way to use such a service is complete encryption of your data.
With this, you can use dropbox as well as every other cloud-storage provider, given the possibility to use the service with free software (and I'm talking about the *client* software running on *your* pc; what kind of software is running on the server doesn't matter).
I think this is true for dropbox, as far as I know (but better prove yourself).
If you don't want to encrypt your data, the only way is to create your own, self-hosted cloud service.
A combination of freedom-respecting hardware (like a LinuXino device) and free software like apache + owncloud or seafile might do the job.
The backup is handled by duplicity which means all data is encrypted. So my concern is not whether the NSA has access to my files or not. I canceled my Dropbox account on priciple, not whether they can read my files or not. And furthermore, their code is not open.
I think my question about the ideals of the storage provider are relavant. What if the people who put together Trisquel set up something like Ubuntu One but kept to the values they apply to their Linux distro? It is not about trusting them with my data but giving my money to someone who shares similar values.
In my opinion, you can never be sure whether someone shares your values and sticks to this values when offering a "Service as a software substitute" and I can't imagine anyone being able to prove the honesty of a provider.
What you're asking for is a company who claims to share your values.
I don't know any of them, perhaps someone does.
But trusting them doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Concerning dropbox:
the nautilus implementation is free software but your right because the daemon is proprietary. So no one should use it.
If you're just looking for a DropBox replacement you may want to try -
http://sparkleshare.org/
http://owncloud.org/
Then all you need is a libre supporting VPS provider. It's still possible of course they are stealing your data, but presumably you will be the only one knowing the encryption if you set it up right. ;)
Thanks for all the great comments. I don't need cloud storage, just backup. Since I wrote a script using duplicity to back everything up I just need a server I can connect to with secure copy. Only need about 3 GB so was looking for an online storeage that is cheaper than my own VPS.
For those who have been following I found a solution. Myklab.com was listed on prism-break.org and I checked them out a while ago. Turns out they offer storage via WebDAV which is compatible with duplicity. If you are interested in the script I wrote (modified from another I found online) I will post it here.
Interesting! Please do post the script, as long as it's freely licensed! :)
I believe other people might be interested as well.
I take it you're talking about https://mykolab.com/
Yeah, I meant https://www.mykolab.com
Here is the GitHub Gist: https://gist.github.com/ngawang/6186486
Thanks! You might want to add a free license or public domain declaration there.
Not that I expect you to sue me but...
I'm actually not so sure how licenses work but what I posted was a fork from someone else. That other person didn't have any license so I just figured I didn't need one either. He did the bulk of the work.
Depending on the jurisdiction that might be a copyright violation.
No license means All rights reserved in most countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_convention
I updated my files on GitHub. Here is my page - https://gist.github.com/ngawang
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