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Tool of the Day: Spideroak-A Fortress in the Cloud for Your Data

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9 pointsgreengirl5125 comments

    SpiderOak is a "zero knowledge" backup provider. 
    This means that we do not know anything about the data 
    that you store on SpiderOak -- not even your folder or 
    filenames. On the server we only see sequentially 
    numbered containers of encrypted data.

This is really cool, and is a reason I don't use my dropbox for as much stuff as I would like to use it for. SpiderOak looks like something I would use for all my data, for this reason alone.

I would have assumed that Dropbox encryps, too?

For all you students out there, don't miss out on the 'Education' offer from SpiderOak!

50% off any premium package (100GB from UNDER $5 month when purchased yearly) just by registering with an '.edu' address!

Everybody seems to be pushing these 2GB storage now. A couple of days ago I saw that Dell offers it along with new PCs, too.

As far as I know, we (SpiderOak) were the first backup company offering 2gb free - since December 07. It works well. I'd much rather offer real value than spend money on customer acquisition via advertising. On average, free users don't store that much, and most backup data is infrequently accessed, so the cost is manageable.

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