WizNote – An Evernote alternative with an open source cross-platform client
wiznote.com
wiznote.com
- Developed in China
- Supports cloud syncing (default - Wiz cloud; they encourage devs to add backends for other cloud providers)
- Source code - https://github.com/WizTeam/WizQTClient
Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with them or their partners
1. USA is just as worse, it's not better than China. So, you wouldn't use any US-created services either. 2. Nearly all hardware products with firmwares are created in China, would you stop using these products as well?
The USA is also pretty close to perfect on not censoring stuff, while China is the worst of any major country.
2. is a very relevant point, though one wonders if China avoids being too aggressive in abusing that in order to keep the manufacturing base there.
I would however add 3. that this is open source code, and if they were going to put in backdoors or censors they would probably aim to do it in their server's as a result. Since they encourage other people to implement their own servers, maybe just do that before using this for anything sensitive.
2. FBI refuses to reveal their methods of breaking into the iPhone.
3. What about the Lavasoft case?
4. The secret FISA courts and the Patriot Act?
USA is just smarter at hiding and concealing this stuff.
As for your #3, the recent Allwinner backdoor reveal does show that sometime it takes a while before someone finds the backdoor and open source doesn't prevent it.
I've been recommending hosting outside U.S. in Switzerland for a while. Yet, that claim is 100% wrong. In the U.S., we don't have to build in backdoors to our clients or servers. We also have speech and press protections we can use to fight stuff. We win in court against the government on occasion. Just look at 90's crypto wars where a small resistance destroyed the government opposition.
People are caving now and police state is growing. Especially secret orders and such. It's why I tell people to host the data outside the U.S. by a company not owned by U.S. Preferably one without forever-secret orders or backdoor requests. China is even worse, though.
"Nearly all hardware products with firmwares are created in China, would you stop using these products as well?"
I told people to many times. I warned moving it all to China was a long-term coup on our economy and subversion strategy over a decade ago. Some real Sun Tzu shit. They didn't listen.
Singapore is a better choice if they want to exploit people for cheap labor with concerns over subversion. Others exist [1] but often in pro-espionage countries. Even in pro-espionage countries, you're usually safe if you're in that country benefiting their interests. They might backdoor you but not harm you really. Chinese I.P. thieves backdooring me in their fabs is nothing like NSA just collecting data on my Freescale-fabbed stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
Recall the Lavasoft case, they were forced to shut down because they refuse to give up their encryption keys or build in a backdoor.
And so on and so forth you get in pseudo-democracies like U.S. that you can only wish for in China.
A little off topic: I generally like Evernote, and pay them $25/year. However, I just had an alert on my Android phone that I thought was from Google, but was actually from Evernote asking for my GMail login info. Had I been careless, Evernote would have accessed my email and integrated it with their service which is something I do not want.
Honest curiosity. I haven't use either, much.
I still like more competition.