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For what it's worth, what you need is:

-- a company with no connections to the United States. Ideally, it should be privately owned by a foreign individual known for strong privacy views and who has promised never to sell.

-- local encryption

-- open source ("trust but verify")

-- actually works

Wuala, from the comments here, meets only one of those four requirements.



Uh, just one? The way I count it's 2.5 out of 4.

It's a Swiss company, owned by LaCie (French) which is again owned by Seagate (US). So I would say that's half a point.

Data is en-/decrypted locally. There's a reason they don't have a web interface, but require you to use the client.

It's indeed not open source. Would be nice if it was.

And it actually does work. There's room for improvement (isn't there always?), but in my experience it's working well.




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