Comments on: In-cloud sync. SugarSync review

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:36:44 +0000

Hey there -

So, I just stumbled upon this article (2 months late) and, as it happens, I work for Sharpcast, the company responsible for SugarSync. We’re quite aware of the security implications for this kind of file sharing, and the system has been designed to make it difficult to access the files if you don’t have permission. Files are transferred over an encrypted SSL channel to our data center, and once there, are very difficult to retrieve if you don’t use something that adheres to Sharpcast’s protocol, which would be very difficult to reverse engineer - it’s not http or ftp, it’s more or less a binary representation of metadata which would require pretty detailed knowledge of the schema and history of the file to effect a transfer. It’s fairly secure, and as an internet-savvy person myself, I have no hesitation with my own personal files being synchronized with our service.

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:32:08 +0000

Yeah I saw that after replying
So who is that Kornel anyhow

By: Djof

Djof — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:19:06 +0000

I recommend people interested in a remote backups look at Crashplan also. She http://www.crashplan.com. It works on Windows, OS X and Linux and if you sync between your own computers, it’s a one time fee.

By: kornel

kornel — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:59:19 +0000

author is listed next to the date on the top of the article.

By: ecsk2

ecsk2 — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:36:56 +0000

Who wrote this? OS X? Chippy you don’t use OS X do you?

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:43:52 +0000

I’d only use this service for “extremely non-personal” data.

I would advise anyone out there to think VERY carefully about what information they upload to these types of centralized data servers.

If you have any item of information which you wouldn’t be happy sharing with the entire Internet, do not upload it to these servers.

By: Lugus

Lugus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:58:36 +0000

Is this a PR article? Just interested. If you are looking for integration with GoogleDocs, flicker etc, go see a similar, in my opinion superior service Syncplicity.

Peace.

By: Sarig

Sarig — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:49:11 +0000

Oh, that’s an entirely different ballgame then, definately worth checking out

By: Grant Pitel

Grant Pitel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:42:38 +0000

In this situations the “peers” are the computers synchronize files with, usually your personal computers. All file transfers are encrypted.

By: Sarig

Sarig — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:31:24 +0000

p2p sounds like a privacy problem just waiting to happen though…

By: Grant Pitel

Grant Pitel — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:50:15 +0000

I have been using FolderShare for a while now and have been quite content with it. Here are its advantages over Sugar.

FREE
P2P–needs no central server
Becomes faster with the number of backup computers.