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		fusiongyro on Oct 26, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Files This isn't really a concern for me, but I'd probably email Colin and ask for it. The tarsnap program is open-source, presumably if he stopped hosting it the server-side component could be replaced. The client does all the work.

forensic on Oct 26, 2012 [–]

What if Colin is dead? It's a backup system for the truly paranoid so this is a legit question.

fusiongyro on Oct 28, 2012 | [–]

The truly paranoid use multiple backups. The encryption ensures that without the keys, nobody else could make use of the data anyway.

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