IMHO, the raving against SpiderOak is a bit silly - are we're going to be this paranoid about what is a remarkably transparent and foolproof system for storing/encrypting data (SO can't even get you your own data back if you lose your password - since they don't store your password, and the password is required in order to decrypt the data, it is effectively bricked). The only disadvantage I see with SO is that if you lose your password, you lose your data. Obviously, we can speculate about SO's team being a bunch of liars and government sponsored thugs (although based on what I've seen in government IT ops, a scheme this well-thought-out is well out of their league). But then how do you know that all network hardware providers aren't all in the bag for the government as well? What if there are back-doors in your router or your network cards? What if there is a government trap door in your basement where agents routinely sneak in at night and spec out your house? What if the government has created autonomous non-physical entities that can walk through walls and decrypt your data by sneezing on your hard drive? But I digress. I've been using SO for a few months now - I've got a 200GB account and it's been working great - I'm hoping to use the opensuse discount code to upgrade my space soon. I particularly am fond of their "deduplication" strategy - SO is able to store any number of identical files in the space of one - all contiguous data blocks are stored only once. A marvelous concept, and it's saved me a lot of money. I still hope to setup a good local backup system, but I've had bad luck with HDDs - every one of my backup external drives has died within a couple years. My optical backups haven't fared much better. SO is certainly invaluable for my home IT setup. I just used it to transfer files to a new laptop - I simply selected the backup of the old laptop, and restored the data to the new laptop. Couldn't be simpler. I for one am very happy that SO is partnering with openSUSE and I hope to see more partnerships like this in the future. SpiderOak's customer support has been top-notch this far, and they seem very commited to open source - their multi-platform client is planned to be fully open sourced in the future. I also like how upfront they are about their privacy and security policies and techniques, instead of hiding it behind a nice slaes pitch ala Mozy et al. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org