📡Syncthing! Stick it to the Cloud✊

Robert Scocca
4 min readDec 1, 2020

There is a jabbing distaste for cloud storage services in the infosec community which is summed up by the quip: “the cloud is just someone else's computer”. By using cloud services like Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. you’re entrusting the privacy and security of your data to another company. Historically, cloud services providers have had a bit of trouble keeping hackers out of their client’s data. Not to mention, they will give up your data to the feds and you’ll never know.

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