![]() ![]() Wuala is thankfully giving customers an opportunity to download their data, and is offering refunds to those customers who have paid in advance for the service. It may never be clear why Wuala decided to close down, but its rapid farewell can only make one wonder if there is the remotest chance, like others before it, that it preferred to close its doors rather than comply with a court-order to reveal its encryption keys. Here is the current SpiderOak warrant canary page, for instance: If a canary in a coal mine stopped singing (and subsequently died), the miners knew that the air had become toxic, requiring immediate evacuation.Ī clever method in use by some organizations to tacitly notify clients about any binding gag orders is to pre-emptively state that they have not been issued any such notice in the last few months. Wuala, unlike rivals such as SpiderOak, does not appear to have a warrant canary which (in its absence) could alert users that something peculiar was afoot.Ī warrant canary, named after the canary taken to the coalface of the early days of mining.Ĭanaries are sensitive to carbon monoxide and other lethal gasses. When a company receives a notice that they must share private information with a government entity, the notice is usually accompanied with a gag order that prohibits the company from mentioning that they have been forced to give up the information. I have no reason to believe that Wuala’s demise is anything more than a commercial decision by LaCie/Seagate, but I am left with no way to easily tell.Īfter all, *if* the shut down was because Wuala believed it no longer had a way to protect the privacy of users from the undue attention of surveillance agencies, how would it tell me if was also served with a gag order at the same time? TrueCrypt, and Lavabit, for instance, shut down amongst concerns that they might no longer offer the protection and privacy that users might wish for, after receiving undue interest from law enforcement agencies keen for the secrets customers protect with the services to spill out. ![]() One thing that crossed my mind for a moment, was whether Wuala might have fallen for a similar fate as other products and services which had encryption at their heart. Clearly, for whatever reason, the firm has decided to rethink its plans for offering cloud-based storage services. They distill their findings into 12 essential questions that every manager should be asking themselves.Wuala is owned by LaCie, who in turn were acquired by parent company Seagate in 2012. Instead of providing generic management advice, the authors conducted extensive research and interviews with successful managers to identify the key traits that make a great manager. My source folder was around 1.5 gig, I think it got down to 24 meg with my filtering.Ī while ago, I was given a copy of First, Break All The Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently and I found it an insightful book about the management position. So this is also a backup if I can’t be bothered at the time (sometimes I might ditch an idea/ change a project structure). Particulary handy as sometimes I also make projects and the way I ended up configuring Git means I sometimes need to make a new repository in BitBucket (which is annoying as there are a few steps). ![]() It becomes my backup in case anything dies before it gets into proper source control… or any project stuff that isn’t in source control and could easily be put back (eg root level Visual Studio solution files). One nice trick is to see what will be filtered via a tree view is to use the add file dialog which will re-calculate each time it is opened. You can also take out projects you aren’t modifying, eg source code from a third party library. It allows you to filter directory names and file names (with wildcard), so I took out images, EXEs, DLLs etc, so it is pretty much just source code I might change. I configured Wuala to cloud store (encrypted) my source code directory. Update: I am now using SpiderOak in a similar manner as Wuala is no longer free. I finally implemented an idea I came up with a while back. ![]()
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