Uber-geeks ASSEMBLE! (10TB free online storage)

Some Chinese company is offering up to 10TB free online storage:

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/merged-tencent-offer-10tb-cloud-free-start-1tb-1376977/

You must sign in to the service once through their Android or iOS app to get this (I don't have any of these devices so I'm downloading AndroVM right now).

Once you get it, access (for desktop computers) is through some proprietary app as far as I can tell and there's a 300MB filesize limit. No matter, I can install the app in another VM and my plan was to use it as an offsite backup using an encrypted filesystem that either uses container files or encrypts files individually like encfs.

Apparently this service is pretty popular in China but I can't get much info on it, anybody know any more?

Right up until dear leader decides to appropriate all the info contained for his own whims..... sure as hell won't catch me on a server not on US soil. At least I already know the NSA is scanning me.

I like to encrypt everything in "the cloud" and keep it backed up offline. That way it doesn't matter who has access or if it suddenly disappears.

Aw dammit I got the Android VM running but can't figure out how to download the app. When you click the download button under the droid logo you get a menu in Chinese.

Edit: OK you click the second line on the right side of the menu.

Edit2: Now I see no way of agreeing to the app's EULA, which is in Chinese.

can I COMPILE instead?

OK proprietary app from overseas and cloud storage just seem like a massively bad/terrible/horrible/monumentally stupid thing to do.

Plus you will end up on a list if you start sending encrypted traffic in bulk outside of the states, doubly so if you are running a high level encryption.

mndsm wrote: sure as hell won't catch me on a server not on US soil.

I can pretty much guarantee you this is unpossible and you already have tons of personal data on non us based servers.

I said I'm ready to lose the data and it will be encrypted. It's for an additional offsite backup. The app will run in its own VM where it will only have access to the encrypted data. Whatever lists there are for stuff you do on the Internet, I'm already on them.

Fueled by Caffeine wrote:

mndsm wrote: sure as hell won't catch me on a server not on US soil.

I can pretty much guarantee you this is unpossible and you already have tons of personal data on non us based servers.

Right, but I'm not actively after it. My (former) website was on a us based server, I made damn sure of that. Something like this is some thing I would never do if given the choice. I try to keep myself limited to online storage as is.

Slightly OT, but help me out here...

What are you folks using all this space for??

I have a 4-year-old Win7 desktop. It came with a 500GB drive. I have about 60GB in use.

I have a 5-year-old MacBook. It came with a 340GB drive. I "upgraded" to a 128GB SSD. I use approximately 30GB of it.

I can not fathom what a person would use terabytes of storage space for. Help a brother out.

Digital packrat here.

I still have my gropro videos from autox/rallyx from the last few years on my hard drive.

A few gigs here and there and before you know it you are talking real space that you have used up.

In reply to EvanR:

Things downloaded illegally, a high grade blu ray rip is usually 10-20 gigabytes.

Apart from things downloaded illegally, a backup of all the computers in my house runs into the terabyte range.

Still haven't found a way to get past the Android app's EULA screen...just 1TB isn't really worth the trouble.