Personally, I've been using Dropbox since 2008, and have had mostly
positive experiences. I use it carefully, in the sense that I try to be
aware that my data is being managed by a commercial organisation operating
out of a different jurisdiction.
Now that Dropbox has proved itself there's a bunch of competitors like MS
Sky Drive, Box.net, and so on. I'm interested in making TW work well with
all of them. Now that Dropbox has led the way with a JS API for
manipulating files, I'd expect their competitors to provide broadly similar
offerings to remain competitive. So, right now, I'm focussing on getting a
good experience with Dropbox for both classic TiddlyWiki and TiddlyWiki5,
but I'm trying to position the work as being more generic ("TiddlyWiki in
the Sky" referring to the concept of storing ones TiddlyWiki's on a cloud
service, and the "...for Dropbox" bit referring to a specific instantiation
for Dropbox).
The concerns about the trustability of ones cloud provider can be mitigated
by encrypting and decrypting data in the browser, and only ever
transmitting and storing encrypted data. In fact, it would be possible to
create an encrypted TiddlyWiki and leave it in plain sight, confident that
only those with the credentials will be able to decrypt it. So, TW5 uses
the Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library for integrated encryption.
All of this is a long way from the old world of keeping TiddlyWikis on a
USB stick in ones pocket, but it buys us something profoundly useful: the
ability to work on any internet connected browser, whether a smartphone or
a desktop.
Cheers
Jeremy
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ronen Teva <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Google Drive
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