Re: Alternative To Dropbox
@gellman: the primary objective is sync, followed closely by availability, and then sharing.
Regardless of the perils, sometimes storing unencrypted is necessary for convenience. My backups are already encrypted in Amazon S3 using Arq. That's really not an issue. iOS already has an ArqView client by which backups can be accessed remotely, but sharing is completely hobbled.
AFAICT BTSync is peer-to-peer; the BT servers are only required to mediate the connections. Of course, that's no excuse for it to be closed source. Naturally, if this were enough of a concern for me, well there's always an inotify watcher and rsync.
As to Dropbox not being any less privacy-sensitive than anyone else, see the link in the OP. Dunno about you, but having a war criminal with a fancy for surveillance is not my idea of a good candidate for a privacy advisor. Maybe she is a good choice, maybe she isn't, but I don't want to be on Dropbox when she sells us out.
My home Internet connection can theoretically support my needs and I have a Mac Mini that'll make a fine server, so in theory I should be set for BTSync. Plus, my data is my own. Naturally, there's always the risk of fire or flood, and sharing will be a bit slower …
Bitcasa is very slow, unfortunately. I don't know why this is, but without LAN sync of any kind it's not an option.
I have not tried box.net. Google Drive was unsatisfactory--no sync, only storage. There are CLI tools, but they only work on the subset of files that are not pulled in my Google Docs. And frankly I'm not so sure that Google is the right place anyway.
Edit: box.net has an accessible site, with less features (it's the mobile version).
URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=172709#p172709
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