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> real people, using crappy early 2000s desktop apps

I wish more companies would concentrate on these kinds of uses rather than whatever the next social media thing is supposed to be. It basically describes my sys admin life and is something I will cheerfully spend money on.

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Some desktops apps should not be in the cloud. Letting the cloud generate your passwords is a bad idea. Complexity kills and the cloud ain't simple. Who has outsourced what to where?

Agreed. But in this case, neither the file server provider nor the backend storage provider can see your data - speaking to Jesse quickly at PyCon this seems to have been a very deliberate design decision.

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